Word: mukarram
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...whose residents famously love to regale visitors with made-up stories-perhaps the tallest of all will be the one you hear in Murchison Station House, a 200,000-hectare sheep farm in the Western Australian outback. There you will be told that everything you see once belonged to Mukarram Jah, the eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, and that it was all seized when he failed to pay his debts. You may be inclined to laugh when you hear this. How could Jah, the grandest of Indian kings, inheritor of possibly the world's greatest private fortune...
...when a 33-year-old, British-educated Mukarram Jah became the eighth Nizam after his grandfather's death, he was no longer a real king, but he was still dizzyingly rich-the master of numerous palaces, a fleet of Rolls-Royces and five trust funds. Muslims in Hyderabad revered Jah, whose maternal grandfather was the last Caliph of Islam in Turkey; the Indian government hoped he would become a diplomat. But the impetuous young man, still sulking over the end of his kingdom, was more interested in tinkering with cars. Then, in 1972, he discovered Australia. After his first glance...
...MARRIED. Mukarram Jah Barkat Ali Khan, 45, eighth Nizam (ruler) of the former Indian principality of Hyderabad and heir to what was one of the world's great fortunes; and Helen Simmons, 31, daughter of a retired Australian steel executive and mother of the couple's 15-month-old son Azam; he for the second time, she for the first; in Perth, Australia, where he has a half-million-acre sheep ranch...
Married. Walashan Prince Mukarram Jah Bahadur, 25, grandson and direct heir of the 74-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad (often called "the richest man on earth"), son of Azam Jah, 52, Prince of Berar, whose "polo ponies and worthless wenches" were too much for the Nizam, who disowned him in 1956; and Esra Birgen, 21, a student at the University of London and daughter of a prominent Turkish family; in London...
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