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The secrets of Queen Farida are narrated by Dr. Lotus Abdel Karim through a dialogue discussing her important book (Farida of Egypt: Secrets of a Queen and Biography of an Artist). The book reveals the dramatic life that Farida lived from the peak of royal glory with all its secrets, then her divorce and loss of her kingdom and all her possessions and her deprivation from seeing her three princess daughters, to the stage of immigration and travel outside Egypt and then her return to Egypt and the stage of her integration into the visual arts as a treatment for her miserable life. The book reveals many secrets about the monarchy and palace intrigues and the loss of the jewels of the Muhammad Ali family, and why she refused to marry after her divorce, and what the men of the revolution did with her possessions, and why she refused to marry Gamal Salem and other exciting secrets about a period that is not spoken about. Tarek Abdel Fattah - After - Nile Culture on 4-23-2016