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...Royal Chamberlain handed the bride's father an envelope containing a check for 10,000,000 piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...
...narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...
...small room in Cairo's Koubbeh Palace waited King Farouk. in the black & gold uniform of a field marshal. Opposite His Majesty, in the morning coat and red tarboosh of Egyptian officialdom, was the bride's father, Judge Youssef Zulficar Pasha, an old friend of Egypt's royal family and vice president of the Mixed Court of Appeals at Alexandria. Religious sanction was given by the presence of Egypt's supreme religious authority, Sheik Mustafa El Maraghi, of Ahzar University, and three other sheiks, all in purple robes and white turbans. Waiting patiently in an anteroom...
...been represented in any of her pictures. Her short, slim, childish figure was clothed in a billowing white satin wedding gown." Worth of Paris charged the Egyptians $3,000 for this dress. Other eyes must have seen her too, for, still breaking tradition, she rode out incognito with Farouk to watch the fireworks...
...richest of reigning Kings, Farouk I was able to give his bride a three-strand diamond necklace gaped at by thousands at the Paris Exposition last summer under a $120,000 price tag. Other notable wedding presents...