EGYPTIAN PRINCE MURDERED.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17813, 12 July 1923, Page 12

EGYPTIAN PRINCE MURDERED.

WIFE CHARGED WITH CRIME. (»T CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATIOH —COPTRIO*T.) HUBTIU.IJAK AND X.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, July 10. Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey, an Egyptian Prince, who was staying at the Savoy Hotel for a few weeks, and who was well-known in the West End social circles,, was found early in the morning fatally shot in his room at the hotel. The Princess, who is a Frenchwoman, was arrested, and charged with murder. Fahmy Bey met his wife at the Hotel Majestic, in Paris. They were mutually attracted, and were constantly together. The Frenchwoman left Paris suddenly,. and the Prince abandoned hope of seeing her again. A few months later, while walking on the waterfront at Deauville, he saw her, and confesed his love. Eventually he won her consent to an engagement, and, returning to Egypt, he secured the consent of his family to the marriage. The Frenchwoman journeyed to Egypt, was presented to the Prince's relatives, and agreed to become a Mohammedari; The marriage at Cairo last December was most brilliant, hundreds of guests being lavishly entertained. The first months of the honeymoon were spent in the Prince's palace on the banks of the Nile. The Prince and his wife were prominent at Luxor during the Tutankhamen season, and they entertained Lord Carnarvon. The Prince's income is estimated at £IOO,OOO. He was a generous supporter of charitable and educational institutions in Egypt. Fahmy Bey was twenty-three years of age. His wife was thirty-two, and a striking beauty. They had beeD married less than a year. She dined with her husband yesterday evening as tlje Savoy, and they were apparently on the best of terms. The tragedy occurred after midnight A member of the night staff, hearing the shots, hurried to the Prince's room, and found liim outside in the corridor in his night clothes. He died before he reached hospital. There was a Browning pistol on the floor, and bullet marks on the wall of the corridor. There were also bloodstains on the Princess's evening gown in the bedroom. When charged with the murder, the Princess sat in the dock in a state of

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