EGYPTIAN PRINCE WEDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18457, 21 July 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

EGYPTIAN PRINCE WEDS.

J ■ •..-■.-.... sp BRIDE AN ENGLISH GIRL.i ,'; 1 "''.: :;■':•.,■■■••;■; ■"Jv^'--v.-.^.-'";-'H-''..' : - ■! : MM ' . PARENTS OPPOSE UNION. ' <"/)| ' LATEST SENSATION IN CAIRO,- If ' , " ', A romantio ; marriagw between i. one _ oj; | I the younger scions of the Egyptian royal : « house and an English girl wan registered ~;.. -M in the Moslem religions courts in; Cairo, .'■«,'* recently, despite the strongest opposition ?*:sf on , the part of the bridegroom's . royal J|| relatives. The bride is Miss MorWena Bird, 'an .'/"JE English girl who has < been '■ the belle el-.•■ /, '''fl Cairo ballroom* since the was. ,' She and.' ~'•'; htor mother have been regular, winter ,j| visitor* there. , Her father, the lata Colonel Bingham Bird; , was ifor ( many - ,'; : V years stationed in Egypt before, the war> " The : bridegroom J?rihco Said Halim, •' i£ second cousin of King Fuad,, and nephew - \ v: "~ of the : former Grand Vizier, ' Said Haling ■ "■» ■•£ who was recently assassinated in Rome. iSaid Halim, who is 2-5 ; years : old, be- ■■•", came an Anglophile in the early days of the .war. • ' He wrote' to the .newspapers foretelling the downfall 0* Turkey and ■;. | Germany and /urging tho ' Egyptians, to. ,'.'•.:";.' show their gratitude for the benefits conferred .on ISgyjit, by England. ,' i, :'<'"t~'?4 . He . studied in England 'undsir Army ■ tutors! in'" 1814, but his, extrsvagn/ncis ■';';?; necessitated ■ . coastant '■■ supervision,,.; ami ' ■/• later he went .io Switzerland., He after- • ; , wards wrote to Lord Kitchener, for pw* , ■ r*'V .mission to ;■ return; to: England, . but" he.-"' •• eventually accomplished r v the - journey-.'-* -yX without a passport by ,-. simply brandish- -V ; ing a* litter; bearing Lord Kitchener's signature 'in the faces of the French offi- ■ ■ V cial.'. .The '- Prince later enlisted , as; a trooper 'i, "i in the Life Guards. Ho was trained at , . ,\. Netheravon Cavalry Sohool,. and went t<s .'■"■'■"". France with an honorary commission ir,: ; th<» 2nd Life Guards,; ;-■. . ■■,' : 'j'*s| ■; -;> Said Halim's marriage was : strenuously r !' opposed by.- his" wealthy .: aunt, from whom " _ ; the Prince had great expectations. His" ;<;?>; brief; engagement• to Miss. Bird was neverofficially announced, and the ceremony was kept' ajfclosely guarded secret. -'. j :: The news; leaked out, however, and*' ■' ; has caused a sensation 1 in Cairo, where ,",<'■ the Prince and - -his bride are ; familiar ,'-,-/;■ "figures. ■ '■,' ' V , • •' l "' /" '"^ The honeymoon ia to lie spent in ... -■.;. Europe. : . , .