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Every evening before he goes to sleep (on the floor; he never sleeps in a bed), Abdullah plays chess, to which he is passionately addicted. He is a strict Moslem, who criticizes Egypt's King Farouk for having allowed his Queen to go out unveiled. But he himself keeps a "black harem," a frequent source of dispute between him and his three wives...
...Shah saw to it that Mohamed Reza on his return to Teheran had a plentiful supply of mistresses. When the time came for the Crown Prince to marry, nothing was too good for him. His bride was Fawzia, 17-year-old sister of Egypt's King Farouk, as beautiful a princess as a prince could wish. They had only one child, a daughter called Shahnaz ("the pet of the Shah"), born in October 1940. Thereafter, it became apparent that the Shah's tastes were quantitative rather than qualitative Fawzia, whose family with a century of rule be hind...
...ring coming to her from the estate of British Egyptologist Major R. G. Gayer-Anderson, who died last month after willing five such rings to five famed men: the late President, Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf, Egypt's King Farouk...
...King Farouk thought the British were to blame for Egypt's censorship. Thought the editors: "Not entirely. The King's own Ministers had been too fond of that weapon...
Married. Princess Faiza, 22, beauteous third sister of Egypt's King Farouk (previously reported engaged to her third cousin, Nabil Ess-El-Din Hassan and a son of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia) ; and the Hon. Ali Raouf, U.S.-educated Egyptian and wartime resident of Switzerland; in Cairo...