Timoor Daghistani

Timur (al-)Daghestani, GCVO, (born in Baghdad, on 4 January 1948) served as the Jordanian ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Son of Major-General Ghazi al-Daghistani, CVO, former ADC to King Faisal II of Iraq, and paternal grandson of Muhammad Fadhil al-Daghistani.

• Bethany School, Goudhurst, Kent.
• Staff College, Camberley.
• Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

• 2nd-Lieutenant of the Jordan Arab Army.
• Director of Training Armoured Corps.
• Assistant Military Attaché, Washington D.C. (1980-1983) [retired 1986].
• Assistant Director of the Information Bureau, Washington D.C. (1986-1993).
• Ambassador to Spain (1994-1999).
• Ambassador at the Court of St James's (since 1999).

His military grade is Colonel.

He was married to Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan in Amman, on 2 April 1970 and had two children together:

• Farah Daghistani (born 25 March 1971), married 23 September 2004 Saud Abdul Aziz Suleiman.
• Ghazi Daghistani (born 21 July 1974), married on 7 September 2006 Samanta Mahdi Saifi.

In the late 1970s, they divorced and Basma went on to marry Sayyid Walid al-Kurdi on 14 April 1980.

He remarried Patrice Ann, and has further issue (Leith Daghistani).

Foreign Honours

• Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Jordan (Kingdom of Jordan).
• Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order [GCVO] (United Kingdom, 6.11.2001).
• Member of the Royal Order of the Intare (Rwanda).