Aisha Fahmy's Palace: History, Beauty and Tragedy?

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Aisha Fahmy Palace – Cairo beautiful treasure but this palace has a sad memory on her silence when turn back time at 1923 a story about beauty and tragedy of her owner.

Table of Contents:

  1. Aisha Fahmy Palace was build
  2. Beauty and Tragedy
  3. Aisha Fahmy Palace : Cairo Beautiful Treasure
  4. Reference


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Aisha Fahmy Palace was build

Antonio Lasciac at 1907 start designs the most exquisite palaces in Cairo for Ali Fahmy Pasha "The Prince of Youth.", Aisha Fahmy's brother. He spent a lot of money to make the palace look like an architectural wonder and he imported the most expensive European furnishings. At such a young age the prince enjoyed a luxuriant lifestyle and his news dominated society tabloids at the time.

Beauty and Tragedy

The start of tragedy when The Prince of Youth starts falling in love with Marguerite Alibert a socialite from France which start the career when she encountered Madame Denant, who managed a brothel catering to a high-society clientele called Maison de Rendezvous. Marguerite became a high-class prostitute. During World War I, Marguerite met Prince Edward despite the fact that the romance was passionate while it lasted, Edward ended it towards by the end of the war. Ali Fahmy Bey first saw Marguerite in Egypt, she was accompanying a businessman and they were formally introduced in July 1922. 

He ran into her again in Paris on several occasions and when Fahmy back to Egypt he invited her and claiming that he couldn't live without her and December 1922, they were married also had a traditional Islamic wedding in January 1923 after 6 month marry the disparities and issues between the spouses grew as a result of the spouses differing cultures.

July 1923 They came in London for vacation and went to watch The Merry Widow on July 9th. They had a late supper when they returned to the hotel and the tragedy happen as Marguerite shot her husband in the neck, back, and skull repeatedly around 2:30 a.m. on July 10th. Her weapon of choice was a Browning semi-automatic pistol with a calibre of.32 calibre. The man was sent to Charing Cross Hospital, but he died soon after from his injuries. 

On Monday, September 10th, 1923, the trial began Marshall Moll, a well-known English lawyer, was in charge of the case, and he demanded Marguerite is innocence, accusing her husband of being a "eastern savage." Marshall's argument in the case transformed it from a dispute between a married couple that resulted in a crime to a clash between the East and the West and the result Marguerite was found not guilty on all counts based on self defense grounds.

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Aisha Fahmy Palace : Cairo Beautiful Treasure

She back to Egypt and try to claim her husband asset. She was unsuccessful because it is a legitimate legal rule in Egypt that the murderer has no right to the murderer’s inheritance. 

Ali's sister, Aisha Fahmy, later acquired ownership of the palace and She lived in the palace until she passed away in 1962 and present The Palace under the Ministry of Culture to become an arts complex that present open for public who want to find Cairo beautiful treasure,


Reference:

Article:

Marguerite Alibert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Alibert#Ali_Fahmy


Aisha Fahmy: An Italianate Palace on the Shore of Cairo Nile 

https://eng.majalla.com/node/146541/cultureaisha-fahmy-italianate-palace-shore-cairo-nile


Photo:

The murderous mistress of Edward VIII before he met Wallis Simpson

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/the-murderous-mistress-of-edward-viii-before-he-met-wallis-simpson/news-story/74d15592fbce8eb145a2cfecb7a029b7


Center Of Arts - Aisha Fahmy Palace

https://cairobiennale.gov.eg/index.php/exhibition-halls/


Aicha Ali Fahmy 

https://www.geni.com/people/Aicha-Fahmy/6000000017997505059






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