Evening star., 1923-05-13
By THE MARaUIsE DE FONTENOY

Khediviah Animal Hanem. mother
| Of the deposed ex-khedive Abbas
and widow of the late Ehediye
TewfilS, has just received the per-
mission of her brother-in-law, King
uad. to return to Egypt after a
virtual exile of nine years. She hap
pened to be at ConstantinopIe when
! the war broke out. and as, unlike her
husband, she had never been par
| ticularly friendly towards Great
Britain during his reign, and during
that of her eldest son Abbas. she was
invited by the British authorities in
Egypt to remain away until the
restoration of peace
Field Marshal Lord Allenby. after
he had been for some time in charge
of the situation at Cairo, waived all
further objection on the part of Eng
land to her return to Egypt on the
ground that she was advanced I'm
years, and in extremely bad health.
But her brother-in-law, King Fuad
whom she had always treated
throughout the reign of her husband
and of her son with the utmost con-
tempt and even hostility, would not
hear of lifting her exile. and has
relented.
Khediviah Animal is an extraor-
dinary woman of very masterful
character, like her mother before her,
the Princess Hamy. OF the latter. it
is related that, a worthy descendant
of the terrible old Mehemmet Ali. the
Albanian born founder of the present
reigning dynasty in the land of the
Nile, gave way on one memorable
occasion to the resentment which she
manifest admiration displayed by her
husband for one of the women of her
household by causing the girls head
to be served up on the following
evening in a silver-covered dish plac
ed before her husband at dinner. The
fact that he was a mere turkish
general, and she, a rich and powerful
princess, caused her to regard any
caprice of his for any other woman,
especially for one of her slaves. in
the light Of an insolence, and after
this little lesson thus administered
to her consort, he thought 1T wise to
toe the straight matrimonial line.
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When her daughter married. khedive
Tewfik of Egypt, while he was still
crown prince. and the old lady took
up her residence at Cairo to be near
her daughter, he remembered the
treatment of his father-in-law and
was extremely careful not to give
his wife any pretext for Jealousy, and
to avoid all cause for reproach on the
mart Of his wicked old mother-in-law.
That Is why he remained the husband
of one wife only, greatly to the
edification of Queen Victoria. who
was, of course, ignorant or the rae
that his monogamy was dlctateo Wy
fear rather than by principle.
There is no doubt that at the time
of the Arabi rebellion in 1882, whlcn
had for it's object the expulsion OF
ali foreigners from Egypt ana the
confiscation of their property, kne-
divah Animal, she like most or the
other women of the reigning famiiy,
sympathized quite openly with ine
Insurgents, and her husbands loyalty
to the European powers, waivered Tor
time. owing to her influence, to
such an extent that his conduct was
subsequently made the subject in the
pr;fish house of commons at w est
minister Of a demand by the late Lord
BandoInh Churchill for his deposition
IN the score of treachery to the
Inrlish. to whom he was really in
debted for his succession 10 me
throne, Tewfik trimmed his sails just
IN the nick of time to save his crown.
INA ~ from thenceforth remained fairly
iovsl 10 his English protectors, who
had after the bombardment OF Alex
;,dria assumed military control OF the
antira valley of the Nile and the Suez