EGYPT
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The Muhammad 'Ali Dynasty
GENEALOGY
1892 - 1914 H.H. (Sa'adat
Sahib al-Tal'a al-vaiqa al-Khedivi al-Afkham wa'l-duari
al-Akram) 'Abbas Hilmi II, Khedive of Egypt,
Sovereign of Nubia, of the Sudan, of Kordofan and of
Darfur, GCB (c 10.6.1892), GCMG (23.7.1891), GCVO
(28.6.1900), Royal Victorian Chain (15.6.1905). b.
at the Urgunchu Palace, Alexandria, 14th July
1874, eldest son of H.H. Muhammad Tawfik Pasha,
Khedive of Egypt, etc., GCB, GCSI, by his wife, H.H.
Princess Amina Najiya Khanum Effendimiz,
the Valida Sultana, educ. Ali and
Royal Schs., Cairo; Pensionat Thudicum, Geneva,
Switzerland, and the Theresianum, Vienna, Austria.
Succeeded on the death of his father, 7th
January 1892. Installed at the Citadel, Cairo, 26th
March 1892. Found himself in Turkey on the outbreak of
the Great War and was deposed following the declaration
of a British Protectorate over Egypt, 18th
December 1914. Formally relinquished all his rights to
the throne of Egypt, at Lausanne, 12th May
1931. Rcvd: the Exalted Orders of the House of
Osman (Hanedan-i-Ali-Osman Nishani)
(9.2.1895) and of Honour (Nishan-i-Ali-Imtiaz) of
Turkey, Knt. of the Orders of St Alexander Nevsky in
brilliants and St Stanislaus 1st class of
Russia, and the Maha Chakri of Siam (1908), GC of the
Orders of the North Star of Sweden (1890), Franz Joseph
of Austria (1891), Legion of Honour of France (1892), the
Dannebrog of Denmark (6.4.1892), the Netherlands Lion
(12.8.1892), Leopold of Austria (1897), Chula Chom Klao
special class of Siam (1897), Carlos III of Spain, Duke
Peter Freidrich Ludwig of Oldenburg, the Ducal
Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Albert of Saxony, Redeemer of
Greece, Danilo of Montenegro, Carol I of Rumania, Pius of
the Vatican, the Royal Hungarian Order of St Stephen
(1905), SS Maurice & Lazarus of Italy (1911), Ludwig
of Hesse by the Rhine (1911), Leopold of Belgium, Star of
Ethiopia, the Sharifian Order of Alawi of Morocco (1913),
Black Eagle of Albania (1914), and the Red Eagle of
Prussia with collar (x.12.1914), the Order of the Exalted
(Wisam al-Aliyeh) special class in
brilliants of Zanzibar, etc. m. (first) at Cairo,
19th February 1895 (nikah) (after the
birth of her eldest child) (div. 1900) H.H.
Princess Iqbal Khanum, Khediva Effendimiz
(b. at Istanbul, 22nd October 1876; d.
at Jerusalem, 10th February 1941), rcvd:
the Order of Charity (Nishan-i-Shafakat) 1st
class of Turkey. m. (second) at Montazah Palace,
Alexandria, 1901 (secret) and at Chibuklu, Bosphorus,
Turkey, 28th February 1910 (public) (div.
at Alexandria, 7th August 1913) Princess Janan
Javidan Khanum Effendi (b. at
Philadelphia, USA, 15th June 1877; d.s.p.
at Graz, Austria, 5th August 1968, bur.
there at St Leonard Cemetery), née Countess May Török
de Szendrö, who adopted the name of Zubaida bint
'Abdu'llah on conversion to Islam in 1900, and received
the new name and title of Janan Javidan Khanum Effendi
on her public marriage, younger daughter of József,
Count Török de Szendrö, by his first wife, Countess
Sophie, daughter of Lieutenant-Field Marshal Ferdinand,
Count von Vetter & Herr von der Lilie, Baron zu
Burg-Freistnitz, Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian
Army, by his wife, Josephine, Countess Vetter von der
Lilie, daughter of Josef von Wachtler auf Wsetin,
sometime Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Cmsnr.
Assessor. m. (third) 1935,
a Viennese. He d.
at No. 5, Quai du Mont Blanc, Geneva, Switzerland, 19th
December 1944 (bur. Khedive Tawfik Mausoleum, Kait
Bey, Cairo), having had issue, two sons and four
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