Unless this ceases

“Unless this ceases, one of you shall die, you are disgracing the memory of my father, and if I end it by killing one of you, then God will forgive me, for it is according to our Holy Law, as you both know” — words of King Faruk.

Husseinen’s death in an automobile accident in 1949 may not have been entirely accidental.

He already had a close brush with death 27 years earlier, when, during his 1922 Sahara expedition, Rosita Forbes misread her compass.

William Stadiem, Too Rich: The High Life and Tragic Death of King Faruk

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