Staff at the Savoy Hotel in were used to demanding and outrageous behaviour from their well-heeled clientele, but the couple staying in suite 41 were the talk of the establishment.Mixed race couples were unusual in 1923, particularly in the sumptuous surroundings of The Savoy, so the glamorous Parisienne and her Egyptian husband would have caused a stir even without their furious rows.One lunchtime, the couple, Prince Ali Fahmy and his wife, Marguerite, were quarrelling so noisily that the leader of the Savoy’s orchestra intervened, whereupon Marguerite dramatically stated: ‘My husband is going to kill me in 24 hours.’
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