She went to Egypt where she appeared on the stage in Cairo and also had an affair with the Khedive.
His services in the campaign were mentioned in despatches, and he was awarded with the brevet of lieutenant-colonel, the medal with clasp, the Fourth Class of the Osmanieh, and the Khedive's Star.
After the outbreak of the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882, the United Kingdom met with opposition from Isma'il Pasha who was Egyptian supporter of independence from British protectorate.
The story is biographical; it was based on the real life of its lead actress, Ola Humphrey, who in 1911 married Egyptian Prince Ibrahim Hassan, cousin of the Khedive.
A large granite tablet was used to record this donation and was of special interest being taken from the great pyramid of Ghizeh in Egypt with the permission of the Khedive at that time.
Khedive | SS Khedive Ismail | SS ''Khedive Ismail'' | Khedive's Star |
Abbas I of Egypt, Wāli and unrecognised Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (1813–1854)
Abbas II of Egypt (also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha) (1874–1944), last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan 1892–1914
Abbas II of Egypt (1874–1944), khedive of Egypt from January 8, 1892 to 1914
After a year working in the court of the Khedive, Shawqi was sent to continue his studies in Law at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris for three years.
In 1900 he published a book on the Egyptian Arab dialect, which gained him the permission of King Fuad I of Egypt to work at the Egyptian Khedive University.
He was made CMG in 1888 and a year later succeeded Sir Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon as financial advisor to the Khedive.
After Prague he proceeded via Sofia, Constantinople (where he pleased the Sultan by dropping a Turkish flag on the Imperial palace), reaching Beirut on 25 December, Jaffa on the 27th, and finally, on the 29th, landing on the polo ground at Heliopolis, where he was greeted by a representative of the Khedive and by the French Agent, who placed a laurel wreath bound with a tricoleur around his neck.
On January 18, 1863 Prince Mustafa became the heir apparent to his brother Isma'il Pasha but on May 28, 1866 the Ottoman authorities changed the law so that the succession became by a direct male line of the reigning Khedive (viceroy) instead of passing from brother to brother.