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...half a year Prince Farouk had been virtually a prisoner on the four-acre estate except for two afternoons a week at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. An endless round of tutors drilled him in English, French, Arabic, history, geography, mathematics, chemistry, physics, gymnastics, boxing, fencing and tennis. In that time his face had lengthened and hardened out of the sly sophistication of a Prince of Albanian-Egyptian blood. His father's only son, he could not get to Fuad's funeral because Moslem law requires burial of the dead within 24 hours...
...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...
...Egypt, 68, ninth sovereign of his dynasty; after long illness complicated by stomatitis and gangrene; in Cairo. Fat, scholarly Ahmed Fuad, proclaimed King in 1922, was Great Britain's unwilling puppet, repeatedly threw his weight against the Wafdists, Egypt's overwhelming majority party. His only son, Prince Farouk, 16, succeeds to the throne under a regency...
Three days prior to the anniversary celebration, King Fuad's son, solemn Crown Prince Farouk, 15, said good-by to his four small sisters, left the royal palace at Alexandria to be trained as a British army cadet at Woolwich. Few schoolboys ever had a more impressive sendoff. At Ras-et-Tin Palace, British High Commissioner Sir Miles W. Lampson was on hand for a farewell handshake, a bit of fatherly advice. In a glittering barouche behind an escort of Egyptian lancers the dark-skinned youngster drove through the streets of Alexandria to the quayside where he boarded...