EGYPTIAN PRINCE'S DEATH
Government Investigation ESTATE WORTH £4,000,000 (Beeeived 24, 8.45 a.m.) CAIEO, Nov. 22. The Government at the family's request is inquiring about the burial.of Prince Ahmed Seifeldin and why, if he died of pleurisy, a post-mortem was held; also the reason for the non-de-livery of an urgent instruction to send the body to Cairo. The Prince's estate in Egyp'f is £4,000,000 and is divisible between his sister, mother and two nephews, t^cause his guaTdiaus did not sanction his marriage in 1925. Th© Turkish widow does not share in the estate. According to a London cablegram, Ihe death, occurred on November 19 of Prince Ahmed Seifeldin, aged 56, a brother-.m-law of the late King Fuad. He shot King Fuad in the neck in 1898 at a fasliionable Cairo club, after family discord. After serving two years in gaol he was sent to Sussex to a 1 private asylum, where there was comparative freedom, In 1925 he escaped, and he lived on the Continent until his death.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 52, 24 November 1937, Page 5
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