Princess Haya opens up about mother’s death

Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar Arabia Princess Haya explained how she overcame the grief of her mother’s death by getting involved in humanitarian work.
“My interest in the healthcare sector started out sadly with my mother passing away when I was three years-old, as she was visiting a hospital in Jordan.
Queen Alia of Jordan, the wife of the current King, was killed in a helicopter crash in 1977 while touring a hospital inspection in Southern Jordan.
“The fact that she died visiting a hospital and that she was trying to serve people… I wanted to grow up and do what my mum was trying to do,” said the princess, who was just three at the time of the tragedy.
“I often went and visited the hospital she died at, in Tafileh. I'd always go and sit with the doctors, I think they realised that it was helping me psychologically to feel that I was doing something.”