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35. A Royal Love Child
King Hussein continued to meet in secret with Susan Cabot whenever the Jordanian monarch visited America, until the affair ended in the 1970s. By then, however, in 1964, Cabot had given birth to her only child, Timothy. He was long rumored to be Hussein’s illegitimate son.
The rumors about Timothy’s true father were buttressed by the fact that Hussein regularly paid Cabot what seems remarkably like child support. As one of Timothy’s lawyers put it in court papers in 1989: “For as long as I can discover, [Cabot] received a regular sum of $1,500 a month from the Keeper of the King’s Purse, Amman, Jordan. … For better or worse, it looks like child support“.