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...back in uniform at the local military academy. His smiles gone, Mohammed went back to following Reza Shah to reviews and parades, and in 1939 just as obediently trekked off to Egypt and brought back the bride his father had selected, the pretty Princess Faw-zia, sister of King Farouk...
...Like sturdy tweed and good Scotch, the nanny has been exported to the whole world. From Brighton and Cheltenham and Tunbridge Wells she has gone forth in her sensible shoes to teach the English way to King Hussein, ex-King Farouk, Prince Rainier, and the daughters of the King of Denmark. So ubiquitous was her kind, in fact, that former French Premier Georges Bidault once bitterly complained: "Too many important Frenchmen have been given an inferiority complex for life by being brought up by English nannies...
...Teheran's shops were displaying a portrait of the Shah, some merchants thriftily dug out a picture of the Shah with his beautiful ex-Queen, the childless Soraya, and at least one found a photograph of him with his first wife, Fawzia (sister of Egypt's King Farouk), who had borne him only a daughter...
...years after he was booted off his throne, Egypt's fat, fatuous ex-King Farouk is still his country's most popular whipping boy. Accused of all sorts of high and low crimes, Farouk got word from Cairo last week that he is now up for a new title: "Most dangerous thief of Egyptian antiquities." His accuser: the emergency curator of the Egyptian Museum, carrying out the museum's first inventory in some 30 years, a belated measure instituted after the recent discovery that some 25,000 national treasures, worth a king's ransom, have disappeared...
Almost seven years after he was booted off Egypt's throne, ex-King Farouk, a puffy and myopic 39, moved a step farther from ever returning to Cairo in royal style. By special decree of Monaco's sympathetic Prince Rainier III, stateless Playboy Farouk, now a Monte Carlo sport, became a Monacan citizen...