AFGHAN KING’S SISTER
KEMAL PASHA WANTS TO MARRY HER Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the president ot Turkey, has asked Cor the hand of the Princess Kubra Jan, the youngest sister of King Amanullah of Afghanistan, according to reports received from Peshawar. King Amanullah, it is understood, has sent an invitation to Kemal to visit Kabul to discuss the matter. The Princess Kubra Jan is a slim, olive-skinned girl of 21 years, who speaks excellent Euglish She was educated in Paris and visited London with King Amanullah this year She is bobbed and wears pince-nez. Mustapha Kemal Pasha met nls former wife when entering Smyrna i after his victories over the Greeks in j Asia Minor. ! He saw' the face of a young girl at a window’. She was Latifer Ilanoum, the 19-years-old daughter of a wealthy merchant, who had received part of her education at Chislehurst, iu Kent. He fell in love and proposed marriage. The wedding took place soon afterwards. In August, 1925, Latifer was divorced, Kemal issuing his own decree. No reasons were given.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 552, 3 January 1929, Page 7
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