Sharing a personal perspective on the past three decades of world history, Queen Noor talks frankly of the many challenges of her life as wife and partner to the monarch, providing both an intimate portrait of the late King Hussein and a moving account of their public role.

Includes index.

First impressions --Roots -- Tehran journal -- Audience with the King -- Leap of faith -- Honeymoon at Gleneagles -- Young bride in the royal household -- Pomp and circumstance -- One crisis after another -- America through new eyes -- At home and abroad -- "Women hold up half the sky" -- Parenthood -- Growing pains -- Prelude to war -- Fire in the Gulf -- Test of faith -- Day like no other -- Edge of the Abyss -- White bird -- Skies cried.