Word: djavidan
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Reporters in Paris discovered the person answering classified ads for a job in Britain was none other than Princess Djavidan, widow of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, last hereditary King of Egypt. Said the ex-queen: "I used to have a whole country; now I look forward to a kitchen. I feel that with the British people I can start a new life more easily than with any other...
Last week incorrigible male correspondents distressed the feminists on whom they were reporting by turning up a precise account of what harem life in Yildiz was actually like under Abdul Hamid, written by Philadelphia-born Princess Djavidan Hanum* who married Khedive Abbas Hilmi II and knew Turkish royal harems as few non-Turks ever have...
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