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...marriage to Princess Fawziya, sister of Egypt's King Farouk, was celebrated by a fabulous wedding in 1939, which lasted five weeks, began in Cairo and ended in Teheran. During it a knock-down fight between his father and his bride's mother broke up the celebration. Queen Nazli of Egypt wanted the dowry salted away in the National Bank of Egypt, but Reza would have none of it. In a huff the Queen left the nuptials flat, and Reza had all the triumphal arches in Teheran torn down. The dowry stayed in Iran...
Captain Jimmy's View. In Cairo Captain Roosevelt hobnobbed with Kings -Farouk of Egypt, George of Greece and Peter of Yugoslavia. He had a talk with General Sir Archibald Wavell. Then he gave out his personal observation on the Iraq situation: though the Iraqis seemed to outnumber the British five-to-one, and though the Germans were leading them they were still rotten fighters, and the British would be able to handle them. But as to British chances against the Germans in that sphere. Jimmy...
...also disclosed that Ahmed Salem had sought to flatter Egyptian royalty by designing special silver-rimmed helmets for young King Farouk and Queen Farida. Their Majesties' helmets were to have sported the Egyptian royal coat of arms "to facilitate identification in case either royalty became a casualty...
This he has done since he was 18. By the time ailing Fuad I died in 1936, the Wafd and other constitutional nationalists had finally wrung a return to parliamentary government from him. Before Farouk had been King two years he took advantage of a Wafd split and nominated his own ministers. Soon afterward, with the support of religious leaders and impoverished fellahin, he made Egyptian policy his own. One day it looks pro-British; another, pro-Italian; but it is always pro-Farouk...
Last week, to celebrate his 21st birthday, handsome, whimful Farouk gave ?2,000 "for the purchase of shoes for the barefooted." Loyal Queen Farida, Queen Mother Nazli and the King's four hazel-eyed sisters scraped together ?750 for the same good cause. The King held a reception, too, but he didn't attend. He had jaundice...