aboard the steamship HMS Medina transiting the Suez Canal at Port Saiid 21 November 1911
L-R: unknown, Prince Mohammed Ali Tewfik, Sirdar of Egyptian army Sir Reginald Wingate, H.I.H. Prince Ziaeldin (son of Sultan Mehmet Reshat and grandfather of Jon Rashad), Khedive Abbas Hilmi II of Egypt, King George V of Great Britain
seated: Queen Mary and Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier Kamil Pasha

The beautious H.I.H Princess Semiha Sultan sister of Sultan Rashad V

granddaughters of Sultan Mehmet Reshat: Imperial Princesses Lutfiye (standing) with older sister Khairiye circa 1925

Jon Rashad's mother H.I.H. Princess Lutfiye wearing official Ottoman dresscode "Yashmak"

EGYPTIAN EXILE - ALEXANDRIA

Princess Lutfiye's Alexandria wedding to Hassan Kamal Bey
maids of honor include Sultan Murat's granddaughter Salma Khairedine mother of bestselling author Kenize Murad "De la Part de la Princesse Morte"

at Sidi Bishr beach in Alexandria. R-L: Princesses Behiye and Lutfiye, Prince Nayef Ibn Abdallah of Jordan, Princess Mihrimah and Ahmed H. Kamal; behind Perizad H. Kamal

THE MAADI YEARS

... memories of another age

with sons Ahmed (R) and Jon Rashad at Villa Kamal, Maadi

Jon Rashad Kamal in his preteens
below: with brother Ahmed and cousin

Princess Lutfiye at Maadi's Villa Kamal, Cairo Egypt

dressed up for King Farouk's palace ball; dancing with brother Prince Favzi

Jon Rashad Kamal in his teens

Perizad Kamal

Osmanoglou family reunion circa 1938 at Villa Kamal in Maadi (at the corner or Roads 10 and 82 now several buildings)
L-R front row: Princesses Lutfiye, Mukbile with child Ahmed Kamal, Prince Osman Fouad (great-uncle of bestselling author Kenize Murat), al-Sharifa Nimet Haidar, Shukriye Sultan...
L-R second row behind Lutfiye Sultan: Prince Nazim and Damat Hassan Kamal, Damat al-Sharif Abdulmejid Haidar, Prince Ali Vasib
seated in the back: Jon Rashad Kamal's maternal grandfather H.I.H. Prince Mehmet Ziaeldin (1873-1938) eldest son of Sultan Mehmet Reshat

summering in Lebanon with Aunt Mehrimah and mother

L-R: Jon Rashad Kamal, Princess Lutfiye, Ahmed Kamal, Princess Mihrimah, Perizad
forefront: Princes Gengiz Nazim and Ali Nayef Transjordan
location: Villa Kamal garden with villa of Princess Karima Halim in background later occupied by Princess Fawzia of Egypt ex-Empress of Persia

L-R: Prince Omer-Fevzi, Perizad Kamal, ?, Princess Nilufer, ?, Jon Rashad Kamal; Prince Nazim kneeling

Standing L-R: Nini Abderahman, Laila, Perizad Kamal, Sherif Abdelrahman, Rashad G. Mazhar
front row L-R: Prince Hassan Nazim, Prince Gengiz Nazim, Prince Ziaeddine Nazim, Nabil Abdel Malek

1957. Party at Villa Kamal with Nour al-Daly and Dolly Dieter dancing in foreground right of photo
forefront left of photo Raouf Galaeldine with Nahed Batanoni
middle of photo forefront Cherif Kamel with back of Perizad Kamal
dancing center room Denise Shual and Newton Smith
Claude Skinazi in white dinner jacket with Nisette Avayou
Near glass door to the right of photo Samira Koroloss with Mamdouh Samaha talking to Fawzi
by glass door at far end Abdelmeguid al-Dali with Ahmed Kamal to his right

EXILED OSMANOGLOUS AMD THEIR SPOUSES

Nizam of Hyderbad's heir with Jon Rashad's great-aunt H.I.H. Princess Duruchevar a daughter of the last Caliph

H.R.H. Prince Nayef (younger son of King Abdalla of Transjordan) weds H.I.H. Princess Mihrimah Sultan (Jon Rashad's aunt) on 30 September 1940 at Villa Kamal in Maadi

Sultan Abdelhamid's great-granddaughter Princess Nejla Orhan Osmanoglou with husband Randolph Germann

THE KAMALS - MAZLOUMS OF EGYPT

above: Jon's father Hassan Kamal and uncle Aly Kamal (photo dated 11 November 1911); paternal "Granny" Tarandil Mazloum (photo dated 15 May 1911) who died on 7 November 1957

Ahmad Hassan Kamal in merchant navy uniform