Word: farouk
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Egypt's palace dictatorship died last fortnight with King Fuad I (TIME, May 11). Last week Egyptian politicians worked fast to take over the Government. As 16-year-old King Farouk I arrived from England to move into his new job, Egypt's overwhelmingly popular Wafd Party swept snap elections, as speechless as they were brief, for the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Reason for haste was that King Farouk is two years short of his dynastic majority. The Constitution of 1923 provided that the envelope containing King Fuad's nominations for the Council of Regents...
Last week, day before the Senate elections, King Farouk sailed into Alexandria harbor on the British liner Viceroy of India. In Cairo the young King knelt before the tomb of his father in the Mosque of Er-Rifái, met Queen Mother Nazli and his four sisters at Abdin Palace. His work was ended when he recognized as his heir his first cousin, 61-year-old Prince Mohammed Ali, son of his father's eldest brother and his father's nominee for president of the Council of Regents to replace a nominee who had died...
...Mosque of Er-Rifái on Citadel Hill where lie his dynastic ancestors. As the coffin reached the Mosque, soldiers cut the throats of seven live bulls lying shackled on the pavement. After the simple funeral exuberant Egyptians poured through the streets of Cairo shouting, "Long live Farouk, King of Egypt and the Sudan...
Never expecting to be sultan, much less king, Fuad had spent his youth in Italy. The two doctors at his deathbed last week were Italians. Lest Farouk grow up under the same influence, Britain last year ceremoniously whisked that downy-lipped young prince off to Kingston Hill for a good British education (TIME...
From the house on Kingston Hill last week went word that new King Farouk planned to take train to Venice, there board the Italian liner Victoria for Alexandria. The British Foreign Office buzzed excitedly. Presently a new itinerary was announced: train to Marseille, the British liner Viceroy of India to Alexandria, and H. M. S. Ajax to escort the new King across the Mediterranean. Farouk, in his first act as King, politely declined the Ajax. The kindness of the British Admiralty to young King Farouk was matched last week by the British Royal family. King Edward VIII invited King Farouk...