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...inches. -(l.r.) Constantine, Paul, Frederika, Sophie and Irene. -"He didn't know who I was. but he took one look [as Frederika sat talking to Queen Farida |, ordered his wife out of the room and switched off the light. I was quite terrified. If I slapped his face, I knew it might cause all sorts of international complications. So I just stood up and said, 'That very big man outside in the naval uniform is my husband, and I love him very much.' Farouk simply 1'aughed, turned on the light and walked...
Cellar Rendezvous. Farouk took the end of marriage No. 2 philosophically (No. 1, to Farida, the "Peerless One," ended in 1948, after ten years, three daughters), and with more high-pitched prose: "Awaiting every new development with full faith in the justice of God," he had his lawyer tell newsmen, Farouk "bows to His will with absolute serenity...
...there was a gift of ?15. "I want to do something," said King Farouk, "to express my gratitude to God. All I can do is to open my heart to all people, and to forgive anybody who has hurt me . . ." Equally forgiving was Farouk's ex-Queen Farida, summarily divorced in 1948 because she had borne him no sons. She sent a message to her ex-husband"Am very happy that your dearest wish is now realized...
...thing that wealthy, willful King Farouk of Egypt most wants is a male heir. His first Queen and childhood sweetheart, Farida, failed him: after three children, all girls, he divorced her. Last spring, Farouk married a teen-age cutie, 18-year-old Narriman Sadek, a commoner. Last week the Cairo newspaper Al Balagh, talking coyly to avoid censorship, announced that "the happy event anxiously awaited by the people of Egypt is expected to take place towards the end of this month or early in February...
...years after he came home, Farouk, nearly 18, married Farida, 16, a childhood playmate, daughter of an eminent Alexandria judge. She was a beautiful, bright girl, and they loved each other. Six years later, the marriage was on the rocks. The story heard most often is that Farida left her husband because he was running around with other women, but his friends say she had her share of the blame. But in one respect, she had been a disappointment to the King: she bore him three daughters but no male heir...