Princess Iman of Jordan Welcomes Twin Girls, Expanding King Abdullah II's Grandchildren to Four
Princess Iman of Jordan and her husband Jameel Alexander Thermiotis welcomed twin daughters on Friday, August 14, 2026, with the arrival announced by the Royal Hashemite Court and carried by Jordan's state news agency, Petra Petra News Agency. Petra published the court's statement at 19:52 local time under the headline "Princess Iman and Mr. Jameel Thermiotis are blessed with twins." The Royal Hashemite Court expressed its warmest congratulations and best wishes to Princess Iman on the birth.
The twins join an older sister, Amina, born in 2025 — making Princess Iman and Thermiotis parents to three daughters in under three years of marriage. The couple married in March 2023 Hello! Magazine.
The arrival was no surprise to royal watchers. Roughly a month before the birth, Queen Rania of Jordan revealed her daughter's second pregnancy on her official Instagram account, remarking that her "grandchildren club is growing" People. That post, shared on July 9, 2026, came on the heels of Princess Iman's first pregnancy, which Queen Rania had similarly announced about a month before Amina's arrival the previous year.
The new twins are the third and fourth grandchildren of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania. Their first grandchild — also named Princess Iman, after her aunt — was born in August 2024 to Crown Prince Hussein and Princess Rajwa, and celebrated her second birthday on August 3, 2026, just eleven days before her twin cousins arrived Hello! Magazine. Princess Rajwa, the Crown Prince's wife, made her first public appearance since that 2024 birth in October 2025 Hello! Magazine.
For Jordan's royal family, the summer of 2026 has been a season of milestones stacked close together. A second birthday for the Crown Prince's daughter, twins for the King's eldest daughter, and three young grandchildren under the age of two — all within a two-week window. The Royal Hashemite Court's announcement followed its standard form: a formal statement published on its website and distributed through the official state agency, the channel by which all such personal news from the Jordanian court is made public.
