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Prince Who Shot
King Fuad
ENGLISH MENTAL
HOME ESCAPE
died,
TELEGRAPH. · SATURDAY, " DECEMBER 4, 1937.
HISTORIC PETITION TO TSAR
Sequel To Rasputin Murder
The existence in England of what↑ is believed to be an historie Russian Majesty, document has been brought to light by the recent · publication of the Tsor's letters in The Daily Telegraph | and Morning Post,
Deeply devoted to your Imperial
Your very loving.
'Olga
Igor
Mary
John
Cyril
Helen
Victoria
Gabriel
Floris
Constantine
Andrew
Igor
Paul
Mary
Nicholas (Michailovich) Serge (Michailovich).
Elizabeth
TSAR'S CURT REFUSAL
PRINCE SEIF EL DIN, the Egyp-
tian prince who made a sensato the Tsar by members of the Im- It is the original petition addressed tional escape from a mental home perial family on behalf of the Grand DIRECT TO vancouveR (from Yokohama) in the South of England in 1923, lins Duke Dmitri Pavlovich when he was exiled to Persia after the murder of EMPRESS OF ‘ASIA-¡caves Hongkong .....at 3 p.m. Dec. 10th
Rasputin. Princo Ahmed Self el Din, brother- EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Jeave Hong Kong
...Jan. 26th
in-law of the late King Fund of The petition was signed by 10 Egypt, was born in 1881. le fest members of the Romanov fumity. It came into prominence in his own one who was closely associated with was originally in the possession of country when he was 17. Believing the Rasputin affair. On his death it "No one has the right to dabble in that Prince (later King) Fuad was was given to a relative who now lives murder; I know that several people maltreating his sister, he rushed into in England.
are suffering from their conscience, the fashionable Mohamed All Club}
as Dmitri Pavlovich is not the only in Cairo and fired a revolver at his
one involved in this. I am surprised brother-in-law who was sitting. In
at your appeal to me. the lounge.
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The Tsor's letters in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post covered) the period during which, in Decem- ber, 1910, Rasputin was murdered. The petition reads:
PENAL SERVITUDE Prince Fund fell with a wound In his throat and his assailant was ar- 'rested. For .this attempt Prince Self el Din was sentenced to seven will read at the end of this letter,
Your Imperial Majesty,
All of us, whose signatures you
The Tsar'a reply was a curt refusa). wrote in his own hand: On the margin of the petition he
"NICHOLAS."
HOW TO
years penul servitude, later reduced warmly and earnestly beseech you to KEEP OUT
your stern decision with
to four years, When he had served soften two years, however,
it was on-regard to the fate of the Grand Duke nounced that he had been removed Dmitri Pavlovich. We know that he to an Egyptian asylum because im-ia physically ill, profoundly shaken, |prisonment had affected his mind, mocally shattered.
Later the Prince was sent to Eng Protector, know what heart-felt love Σου, us his Patron and Highest
for
OF PRISON
Liverpool,
Ten tips on "How to keep Out of his Gaol" were given at a conference of
land where he became an inmate of a private mental home at Ticehurst, he has always had
you, (Oil Burners) Sussex. There he lived in compara- Sovereign, and for our Motherland. prison workers by Cyril Clancy, an tive pence for a number of years We implore your Imperial Majesty, offeint of the Discharged Prisoners' though he was unable to enjoy his in view of the youth and truly weak | Ald Society. enormous yearly Income sald
In order of importance, he says:- to health of the Grand Duke Pavlovich, amount to some £200,000,
to allow him to reside at Ousoff his
1. Don't marry
An extravagant father's estate) or Ilyinski [then the wife. Grand Duke Serge's, later the Grand Duke Dmitrl's.]
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·SUDDEN ESCAPE
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"COMPLETE MARTYRDOM"
2. If you have done so, (things up before something
happens
Ughten
serious
3. Don't marry on the love Im- pulse only.
0.
Your Imperiul Majesty must be aware of the unpleasant circum-virlue rather than one who looks 4. Choose a wife of prudence and Then in 1925 the Prince suddenly stances in which are situated our charming in a bathing costume. disappeared. For a time neither his troops in Persia, through absence of whereabouts nor the manner of his comforts, epidemics and other hard- you ore.
3. Don't preiend to be more than fight were known. Even his legal ships of humanity; for the Grand position as a patient at Ticehurst Duke Dmitri Pavlovich to stay there financially secure.
6. Don't run a car unless you are was vague.
would be equivalent to complete 7. Remember, It is said that the escape was en- martyrdom, and pity must surely be maintained for yone courses are not gineered by an American who was heart for this youth whom you loved,
awakened In your Imperial Majesty's ment. In league with the Prince's friends who from his childhood has had the of man-it is their misuse that brings Beer and wine cheer the heart in Egypt.
good fortune to be often by your so many within prison gates, While on a trip to Hastings ne-side, and for whom you were as kind
B. If you are out of a job a prison companied by two attendants the as a father.
conviction won't help you to find one. Prince mingled with holiday-makers
your Imperial 10. Life won't last forever-go on the pier and crossed the Channel Majesty to alter your decision and re-straight while there is time.-United BSB dny tripper
pleasure place anger by mercy. on a steamer, Met at Boulogne by a car, Self el Din proceeded to Paris where! he joined his mother, the Princess) NeodiJwani and together they tra velled to Constantinople in Italy.
Upheaval was caused in Egypt by the Prince's escape and this culmin ated in the dismissal of the Cabinet,
In 1928 Prince Self el Diri was debarred from suing the British Government for £4,000,000 for Illegal detention because the three English doctors engaged by his mother had been forbidden by the Turkish Government to examine the Prince in order to prove his --- sanity.—-
In 1933 Prince Self el Din mur- ried the daughter of the former Governor of Istanbul (Constantino- ple) and settled in the Turkish capi-
tal.
The Egyptian Royal Court im- mediately decided that this marringe Avas null and void and communicated their decision to the Turkish Civil Courts. The decision was given on the grounds that the Prince was In- sane and at the same time it was stated that any children born of the marringe would not be considered legal heirs. A son was born about
year after the Reuter.
marriage.--
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13 Luro (5).
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