Word: farida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corrupt Courtiers. After the war, Farouk increased his influence in the Middle East by founding the Arab League. Then his first marriage, to Queen Farida, who had borne him three daughters, broke up, and trusted Hassaneen Pasha died of a heart attack. Hassaneen was replaced by an unsavory crew ranging from Pulley Bey, a former Italian barber and electrician, to Kareem Tabet, a wily Lebanese newsman. Farouk was soon gambling away his nights at the card tables of Cairo's Royal Automobile Club or touring the Riviera circuit, where he rented 30-room hotel suites and sometimes dropped more...
...following, Farouk became a citizen of Monaco but spent most of his time in Rome. He grew ever more gross and more persistent in the pursuit of women. And it was mostly women, last week, who crowded around his bier at Rome's municipal morgue. His first wife, Farida, and her three daughters came from Switzerland. Six other women, who said they were Egyptian refugees, also signed the funeral register. Young Prince Fuad left a sickbed to attend the funeral and was the major beneficiary of Farouk's $3 million estate...
Married. Princess Fadia, 21, youngest daughter of Egypt's ex-king Farouk and his first wife Farida; and Pierre Orloff, 26, Swiss geologist, well-born son of an exiled White Russian; in a civil ceremony at which Farouk was noticeably absent (he wanted Fadia to marry a Moslem, not a Russian Orthodox); in London...