AN EGYPTIAN ROMANCE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 935, 30 September 1910, Page 5

AN EGYPTIAN ROMANCE.

THE 'KHEDIVE'S LOVE: AFFAIRS,

The, prolonged stay of TT.Tr. tho Khedive at Constantinople and his decision; not, to, pay-his accustomed summervisit to Western Europe have given'rise. Bays the "Pall' Mall Gazette" Cairo correspondent, to various rumours as to the' motive,of this change in. plans. In January: last; immediately /after- his wtuni. from Mecca; it .will be : ed, Abbas II; married . privately an Aus- , trian Countess, who had for - ; aiany years been attached to his Court, arid who, previous to the wedding, had becomo a convert to Islam. The 1 Countess, was a'very well-known / character. in Egypt. The Khedivah, who is; always the wife who bears, the Khedive his first male child,' was furious at this act of her august spouse, and has' ever -/since defied him. .•■,' The Khedive, as a matter of .fact, has been for bears past passionately in love with the Austrian: Countess, and in order to punish the present Khedivah for her insubordination, and in order to give satisfaction to the lady of his heart Abbas II is-said to bo moving heaven Bid earth ,to get the Sublime Porte to alter/the succession, and, in the-event of the Countess: having a son, to. recognisehim as,'the heir to the Khedival throne, and'his; mother as the real Khedivah.The present heir, is 'Prinoe Mohammed Abdul iloneim, who was born in 1899, It is exceedingly : doubtful; whether the Khedive . will succeed ,in his endeavour, Indeed, I should : not have attached any truth :to the storr if it had not been.r©lated to me as absolutely true by a very high-piaced Moslem. .