Word: ex-queen
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...Egypt, where brides are supposed to get dowries from their grooms, former Queen Narriman's mother charged that deposed King Farouk welched on his traditional Moslem obligation. Narriman's mother, suing as the ex-Queen's guardian, claimed that Farouk never anted up a piaster of the $28,700 he owed. Meanwhile, Farouk was having mouthpiece trouble: a Cairo court, with Narriman's divorce suit on its docket, refused to hear Farouk's Syrian lawyer, who finally dug up an Egyptian attorney who was willing to plead the porcine playboy's case...
...Cairo, Egypt's ex-Queen Narriman, fed up with the penny-pinching and well-publicized antics of deposed King Farouk, slapped him with two suits, one for divorce, the other for $14,000-a-month alimony (which she can collect for only one year under Islamic law). In exile in Rome, leering and prancing as usual, Farouk told friends that he will deny everything (through a Syrian lawyer, because no Egyptian attorney will touch him with a 10ft. obelisk) and will ask the court to order Narriman to return to him and little ex-King Faud...
Died. Elena, 79, ex-Queen of Italy, Consort of the late King Victor Emmanuel III; in Montpellier, France. A towering (6 ft.), black-haired princess of the Black Mountain (her father was Nicholas, Chieftain of Balkan Montenegro), Elena was courted by tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel (then Prince of Naples) at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. When the shy, awed prince fell in love with her, she was a daredevil horsewoman, had rustic manners and a deep, resonant voice. Married in 1896, they ascended the throne in 1900, where they remained until exiled...
...same day there was a gift of ?15. "I want to do something," said King Farouk, "to express my gratitude to God. All I can do is to open my heart to all people, and to forgive anybody who has hurt me . . ." Equally forgiving was Farouk's ex-Queen Farida, summarily divorced in 1948 because she had borne him no sons. She sent a message to her ex-husband"Am very happy that your dearest wish is now realized...
...Madrid's local nobility politely regretted that they would be unable to attend a reception for Otto of Habsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne, and his bride, Princess Regina. It was all the doing of Don Juan, pretender to the Spanish throne and son of Spain's ex-Queen, Victoria Eugénie, who failed to receive an invitation to Otto's wedding last month. "I am sorry," said Don Juan, "but that ill-mannered individual was rude to my mother. I cannot forgive...