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Overcome with honeymoonshines while lunching with Queen Narriman at a seafood restaurant in Naples, Egypt's pudgy King Farouk burst into tenor solo, gave his bride a table serenade with a Neapolitan love song, in turn got a burst of applause from delighted guests...
Aboard the yacht Fakhr el Bihar, accompanied by two destroyers, an ambassador, three courtiers and a staff of 50 (plus five Cadillacs and a station wagon), Egypt's Queen Narriman, 17, and King Farouk, 31, arrived in Taormina, Sicily to spend the first ten days of their two-month honeymoon. The entourage took up a 60-room wing in the Hotel San Domenico, a converted monastery, where the royal couple shared what the management refers to as "the Truman suite" (named for an anticipated visit by the President which never came off): a reception room, two bedrooms, a connecting...
...view of the troubled state of the world, King Farouk had promised to make the wedding a simple affair, and perhaps by oriental standards it was. A mere 2,500 people gathered in the square outside Farouk's suburban palace at Kubbeh one morning last week when Egypt's King finally made a Queen of the 17-year-old girl on whom his royal eyes fell over a year ago, when she was the fiancée of a civil servant (TIME, Jan. 9, 1950). The square was lined with mounted lancers and foot guards in immaculate white...
Married. King Farouk of Egypt, 31; and Narriman Sadek, 17, commoner daughter of one of the groom's civil servants; he for the second time, she for the first; in a suburb of Cairo (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Married. Patricia ("Honeychile") Wilder Cernadas, 32, Georgia-born playgirl of the International Set, who claimed she once almost shot Egypt's King Farouk, "thinkin' he was a duck"; and Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, 33, who fled Poland just before the German invasion in 1939; she for the third time, he for the second; in Greenwich, Conn...