Princess Raiyah bint Al-Hussein of Jordan has secretly split from her husband Ned Donovan, it has been reported.
The royal, who is the half-sister of the current King Abdullah II, married Roald Dahl's grandson in July 2020 – the first royal wedding after the coronavirus lockdown.
However, they have now split, according to reports, with Ned, 32, moving on with Megan Tomlin, an American influencer.
Ned and Megan tied the knot last week at St Margaret's Church in Babington, Somerset, according to the Daily Mail's Richard Eden.
They were joined by guests including his half-sister, writer Sophie Dahl, and his godfather, Sir Nicholas Coleridge, the new chairman of the King's Foundation and provost of Prince George's future school Eton College.
Ned has had a difficult time in recent years after his father, Patrick Donovan, sadly passed away in 2021 from cancer.
© AFP via Getty ImagesIn 2024, he was injured after stopping a pickpocket near the Houses of Parliament, telling the Metropolitan Police he'd been let down by "failures" within the force.
Princess Raiyah and Ned Donovan's royal wedding in 2020
Princess Raiyah, 40, and Ned tied the knot in 2020 in a socially distanced ceremony that took place outside.
The nuptials were attended by Raijah's American-born mother, Queen Noor, the former queen of Jordan and the widow of the late King Hussein.
At the time, Princess Raiyah shared two photographs from the day on her X, formerly Twitter, account. One showed her sitting behind her new husband in his morning suit and signing the marriage certificate.
The other showed them standing on a stone terrace in front of a leafy garden.
Her wedding dress was embroidered with a high neck and she accessorised with a bewelled headpiece.
The wedding was initially planned for April 2020 but was postponed due to the pandemic. She wrote at the time: "Thank you all for your kind messages on our wedding!"
Princess Raiyah's incredible academic credentials
Princess Raiyah studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Edinburgh and holds a master's degree in Japanese literature from Columbia University in New York. She then undertook a PHD in pre-modern Japanese literature at UCLA.
© AFP via Getty ImagesNed, who has worked as a freelance foreign correspondent for The Daily Mail and The Times, is the son of writer Tessa Dahl and Patrick Donovan, making him a maternal grandson of children's author Roald Dahl.
They got engaged in October 2019, with the Royal Hashemite Court announcing it that November.
