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...western side of the Sinai Peninsula last week, Egypt's King Farouk, 29, who recently divorced Farida ("Peerless"), his queen of eleven years, was behaving remarkably like David. Farouk was getting ready to marry again. There are several non-synoptic versions of how this came to pass, and the most reliable account is this...
...Hachem, 27, a Harvard-trained economic aide to the U.N. Secretariat. Narriman and Zaki had set their wedding day for Dec. 8, and a few days before, they went shopping for a ring at the Cairo store of Ahmed Nagib Pasha. Ahmed, who in his spare time helps out Farouk with new telephone numbers, told the young couple to come back next day. His Majesty hustled down to size up Ahmed's find from a concealed balcony. Narriman, beautiful to look upon, Farouk decided...
Married. Dom Joāo de Orléans e Bragança, 33, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, now a captain in the Brazilian air force; and Princess Fatima, 26, sister-in-law of Egypt's King Farouk; she for the second time; in Sintra, Portugal...
...Shah's exwife, beautiful Princess Fawzia, whom he divorced last fall because she had borne him no sons, last week remarried in Cairo. Her new spouse: Ismail Shirene Bey, a minor official in the Egyptian premier's office. Both Fawzia (sister of Egypt's King Farouk) and her new husband are descended from Mohammed AH Pasha (1769-1849), the Albanian adventurer who founded the present Egyptian dynasty...
President Truman expressed himself as "immensely gratified." Trygve Lie put in a sorely needed plug for the U.N. Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok voiced a rather astonishing accolade to Egypt's sybaritic King Farouk: "Tribute must be paid to the realism and courage of the Egyptian monarch and government, their breadth of vision and . . . bold statesmanship...