Word: fawzia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick a bride for him. Princess Chams is retiring and sweet, the exact opposite of Princess Ashraf. The latter was enraged when Chams chose Soraya Esfandiari, daughter of a chief of the powerful Bakhtiari tribe, to be the Shah's second wife. (He divorced his first, the beautiful Fawzia, a sister of Egypt's unbeautiful King Farouk, partly because she did not produce a son.) The Shah and Soraya (whose mother was German) were to be married last Dec. 27; the wedding was postponed because the bride got typhoid. Present plans call for a Feb. 12 wedding...
...20th Century." Farouk's advisers are worried over the King's public flouting of the ancient command: "Thou shalt not usurp thy brother's betrothed." Even his sister Fawzia does not try to defend his action, but shrugs the story off with: "It must be a joke-he can't really mean it." By censoring the Egyptian press and holding the threat of expulsion over foreign correspondents, the Egyptian government for years has tried to conceal Farouk's way of life and other noxious matter lying beneath Cairo's glitter. The King, however, will...