Queen Rania vs. UFO

Every year, the royal blog ufonomore.com publishes a list of how much royal women around the world have spent that year on new clothes.

In the Jan 2018, they had to retract a statement saying that Queen Rania of Jordon had used taxpayer money to buy clothes. It's not clear if the Rania's people contacted them.

UPDATE: More information has come to our attention, and we want to clarify our information on Queen Rania. Her Majesty’s clothing is NOT paid for by the Jordanian taxpayer. At face value, our calculations are what Queen Rania (and the other royal women)’s clothes are worth, and in theory, what they would cost to buy. We cannot say for a fact that these royal ladies actually spent the amount as items could have been on loan or gifted, which does occur for some royal ladies. Additionally, we do not know if they were purchased at full price or with a high discount (like 50% off, for example). Therefore, the calculations should be seen more as what the wardrobes were worth in 2017.

We apologize for any confusion and misinformation earlier to our readers, Queen Rania, and the Royal Hashemite Court. We hope that people now take note of our update with verified information. 

http://ufonomore.com/blog/2018/1/1/2017-costs

In Jan 2019, UFO announced that Rania had not been included this year after discussions with her court.

You will notice that Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan is not on this year's list as she was last year. After discussions with the Royal Hashemite Court and the Office of Her Majesty, we have taken Her Majesty out of our tally and off of our website as to not cause any “damage” to her from our calculations of the yearly worth of her clothing. As a result of our discussions with members of the Court, we determine it was best for Her Majesty and UFONoMore.com to remove her from our tally and website.

http://ufonomore.com/blog/costs-2018

Despite the fact she'd not been included this year, Rania then had a statement put out all about the situation.

Statement From Queen Rania Office

2/1/2019
In accordance with the principle of transparency and the provision of the right information, we would like to highlight a subject that is occasionally circulated through social media sites and some media outlets.
At the beginning of each year, some foreign blogs publish estimates of the spending of clothing and fashion by members of the royal family around the world. We have also seen a number of inaccurate publications on social networking platforms about the cost of what Her Majesty is wearing during her daily activities.
Last year, the UFO No More estimates of Her Majesty’s spending on clothing were circulating in 2017. In view of their unrealistic and false assessments, we have asked the blog supervisors not to include Her Majesty in her annual reports.Over the years, there has been a lot of talk about Her Majesty’s spending on clothes until it has become the subject of controversy and discussion, Unfortunately, this sometimes came at the expense of much of Her Majesty’s efforts in various fields,Perhaps it would have been more useful for our Office to clarify this issue directly and explicitly throughout those years.
Therefore, and in recognition of Her Majesty’s interest in making the facts accessible to all to build their thoughts and opinions on them - positive or negative - we have decided to clarify some details on this subject. With Her Majesty the Queen seeking to represent Jordan properly, she is keen to balance this and moderate spending. The vast majority of Her Majesty’s clothes are either borrowed by fashion houses, offered as gifts, or bought at reduced preferential prices, while blogs rely solely on “market value” for clothes, creating a false impression of reality.
Some may deplore the principle of “Loaning” But it is a common practice globally and common among fashion houses as a way to highlight their designs. Some may deplore the fact that a person of Her Majesty’s status accepts the principle of “Loaning”, but we do not advertise or promote fashion Houses on any of Her Majesty’s pages on social networking platforms, unless the designs are Jordanian. The focus on clothing and spending leaders’s Wives in many countries and accusing them of waste - whether right or wrong, not new, It has been used as a historical political tool. Today, we see some in Jordan adopting this approach to portray Her Majesty the Queen as far from reality, far from the truth.So they may reject this clarification and question it in principle, in an effort to build a false public opinion.
Her Majesty is aware of the criticisms that are being circulated, Her Majesty previously Confirmed That criticism is an integral part of the public work and that it is with responsible criticism and respects it and always takes it seriously and responds to it.But today we find not only criticism, but to the extent of fabrication of information and resort to the method of ridicule and mockery in a way that is contrary to the values of our Jordanian society
We realize that this explanation may be out of the ordinary, but in the absence of facts spread rumors and false information and accumulate false impressions, so we put these hands in these details and leave you free to deal with.

 

It was pretty bizarre that she name checked the blog and did this statement at all, but also kinda shows that the royals do pay attention to the fandom. 

At the time of writing this UFO havent commented but they might have by the time you've read this.