Egyptian Prince Wants To Lire Simple Life

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 14 (Supplement)

Egyptian Prince Wants To Lire Simple Life

MARRY THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS After spending £200,000 in pursuit of pleasure, handsome Prince Said Halim, aged 34, scion of the Egyptian Royal house and cousin of the present King Farouk of Egypt, plans to return to Egypt and settie down with “the girl of his dreams.” Previous marriage plans of the prince were opposed by the late King Fuad. A union between the prince and Miss Morwena Bird, an English girl, whose beauty was the talk of Cairo at the time of their engagement in 1923, was forbidden. King Fuad stripped him of his rank and privileges, which were not restored until after the king’s death. When I saw him at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, W., states Gwyn Lewis, the prince said:— “There is opposition to my latest romance. My family is divided. My mother objects on the ground that I ■Ought to marry a girl of royal blood. lam determined not to marry any princess. “My aunt, who allows me £3OOO a year, has met the girl and approves of the match. “Who is the girl? Ah, that is a secret. Her first name is Kyros. She is the daughter of a prominent American property owner. I am now planning to take the girl of my dreams to Cairo. 4< Aly great hope is to settle down to a simple life. We do not want to live in a palace. A nice flat in Alexandria will do. We do not want a peiyiy from the Civil List. “I also hope that the Government will find mo work to do. I am tired of pursuing pleasure on tho Continent, and now want to be of real use to my country. “I ran through £200,000 in seven years. I thought nothing of spending £SOO in a single night entertaining the members of a theatrical show. My losses in a single night at the gaming tables would sometimes be far more. “Then I had my yacht, my motorcars, my horses, everything that money can buy.” I asked him whether he had any regrets. He said, “Not one. I "have nothing to show for my extravagance but whatever the future holds for me I shall bo able to look back on a youth brimful of happiness.”