ENGLISH GIRL MELPS EGYPTIAN PRINCE ESCAPE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17759, 1 February 1926, Page 11

ENGLISH GIRL MELPS EGYPTIAN PRINCE ESCAPE.

AHMED SUFFERS FROM FEAR, BUT IS SAFE. ! By Telegraplv—Press Assn.—Copyright. \ Aua. and IsT.Z. Cable Association. ! LONDON. January 31. The “ Sunday News,” in a remarkable pnd exclusive narrative concerning Prince Ahmed Seireddin, says he is now living in a palace on the outskirts of Constantinople with his mother, who is over 70 years of age. The Prince always has a in case of an attempt to kidnap him His friends declare he is sane and rational, but suffers from fear. He shouts in his sleep, “ Let me out.” and tells his friends he misses the summer air of the English countryside and the wild flowers, for which reason he sent •to Sussex for bluebells, which have been planted in the palace garden. After the evening meal the Prince sometimes asks to be entertained by dancing girls. On other evenings he retires to smoke or play chess with his -mother. • It was a pretty English woman who was largely instrumental in Ahmed’s “ escape from Ticehurst. She frequently visited the Prince with a woman friend and finally brought women’s clothing, in which Ahmed escaped. She had the greatest difficulty in persuad if’.g him to have his beard cut off and his head shaved, for this is a very great humiliation to a Mohammedan. On arrival in Paris the Prince changed into the garb of a Turkish girl and travelled, heavily veiled, in the Oriental Express. The English girl followed. She is now resident in Constantinople. Seifeddin, an Egyptian Prince, who for over twenty years was kept in a private asylum at Ticehurst, Sussex, disappeared in August last. During the whole period of his incarcer- • ation, which followed his imprisonment for shooting at King Fuad, his brother-in-law, his aged mother had endeavoured to secure his release, and she instituted a claim against the British Government for £4.000,000.