Evening star., 1951-05-07
Precious Gifts Pour
Into Cairo for Farouk
And Young Bride
By the Associated Pres.


CAIRO, May Precious gift.
poured into Cairo's Abdin Palact
today following the marriage O.
King Farouk and beautiful II.
year-old hartman Sadek yester.
day.
AS Egypt continued its iubilant
rejoicing at the nuptials with &
public holiday, Farouk and hi.
commoner bride prepared for 6
tea party at the palace tonight
A diplomatic reception tomorrow
night will wind up the festivities
The chiefs of foreign diplomatic
missions arrived at the palace al
mid-morning today, bringing gifts
from their heads of state.
United States Ambassador JEFF
ferson Caffery delivered from
President Truman a set of foul
matched Steuben glass vases. Mr.
Truman had given one vaSe-a
larger one-to Trans shah on his
recent marriage.
From King George VI came a
massive silver inkstand, handed
over by Britain'S Ambassador, Sir
Ralph Stevenson.
What the Russians were giving
If anything-waS a secret.
Many Of the gifts were of solid
gold. Some were decorated with
diamonds and other precious
stones.
Abdullah Sends Precious Gift.
Cairo's diplomatic corps is pre-
senting, as body, a gold-plate
set with precious stones. The
Egyptian cabinet is giving a gold
tray with small gold cups orna-
mented with diamonds.
King Abdullah of Hashemite
Jordan sent 12-piece toilet set
Of pure gold, studded with dia-
monds and other precious stones
along with two gold chandeliers
the British-owned Egyptian Ga
Eette reported.
The wedding was announced
yesterday by 101 salute guns. They
set on a gigantic double celebra-
ton OF the marriage and of the
18th anniversary of the 31-year-
old monarch's reign.
While the bride waited in her
widowed mothers modest home
20-minute all-male Moslem GER
emony at Kubbeh Palace Joined
the couple late yesterday morn
ing.
Six hours later hartman made
her first public appearance as
queen, driving the seven miles to
Abdm Palace past more than a
million of her cheering new sub
jects.
At the palace the white-robed
queen, her head encircled with
diamonds, stood with her royal
husband at an exclusive tea party
receiving several hundred promi-
nent guests. All of them were
women except male members of
the royal family and the Ismaili
Moslem Sect's fabulously wealthy
spiritual ruler. the Aga Khan.
AS queen, hartman will make
public appearances only at func-
tionS for women.
During the day holiday parades
and professions poured through
Calro'S streets, beneath special
archways. Airplanes in forma-
tion roared overhead. The capital
last night blazed with lights and
fireworks.
Capri Honeymoon Planned.
Throughout the country vii
layers fired shotguns and danced
In the streets.
The couple reportedly will
honeymoon at Capri, the resort
island off Naples, Italy.
For the afternoon reception. the
new queen wore a white satin
Partisan wedding gown, studded
with more than 10000 brilliants
and with a train IA feet long and
10 feet around the hem. Her hand
embroidered Venetian lace veil was
held by diamond diadem and
she wore a diamond necklace given
her by the king.
The party featured wedding
cake feet high, which Farouk
cut with Saber. It was served to
the guests on solid gold plates.
Farouk. according to reports
published abroad and denied in
part by the Egyptian Embassy
won his bride by disrupting her
love affair with one of his sub
jects.
The most widely reported YER
sion of the romance, first circu-
lated abroad in December, 1949.
was this one:
The King first saw Miss Sadak
shopping for an engagement ring
on December 4 with her then
f1ance. Zaki Hashem, an economic
expert with Egypt's delegation to
the United Nations.
Farouk sent his sister, Princess
Fawzia, divorced Empress of Iran,
to press his suit with hartman.
Friends said both she and her
father, secretary general of the
Communications Ministry until
his death last year, were opposed
to the match but later were won
over.
Farouk finally announced his
engagement to hartman last
February II, his 31st birthday
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