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Prince Hamzeh, his 18-year-old half-brother and the elder son of Hussein's widow, Queen Noor, was appointed crown prince.
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His widow, Queen Monique, and the son in whose favour he abdicated, King Norodom Sihamoni, then lit the funeral pyre at the 15-storey-high purpose-built crematorium.
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Controversy also flared up recently after Belgium's dowager Queen Fabiola, the widow of Albert's brother, Baudouin, was accused of setting up a foundation to avoid the country's high inheritance taxes.
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