"Al-Nabil" Mohamed Sa'id Halim

Prince Muhammad Sa’id Bey Halim (Prince Said Halim). b. in Cairo, Egypt, 25th February 1896, educ. Eton Coll, Windsor, Berkshire.

Enlisted as a Trooper 2nd Life Guards, served in the Great War 1914-1918, cmsnd as temp Hon 2nd-Lieut 28/4/1917, retd 1918. Deprived of his styles and titles 14th May 1924 (restored before 30th November 1936). Rcvd: 1914/15 Star, British War and Allied Victory (1918) medals.

Married (first) (eloped from the Hotel Villa Aurora, Fiesole, near Florence, Tuscany, Italy, 1st October 1919) (div. 1920) Donna Albina Maria Caracciolo di Brienza (b. at Naples, Italy, 8th December 1893; d. 21st June 1983), eldest daughter of H.E. The Noble Signor Don Tristano Caracciolo, 7th Duke di Brienza, 7th Prince di Spinoso, and a Patrician of Naples, Italy, by his wife Dona Marianna di Franza Caracciolo, Duchess di Brienza.

Married (second) at Markhama, Cairo, Egypt, 24th May 1923 (div. 1930), Marjorie Morwenna Bird (b. at Marylebone, London, December 1898; m. second, at Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 25th November 1931 (relig), and at the Register Office, Paddington, London, 7th December 1931 (civil), Roger de Leval, poet and advocate, who d. at Brussels, Belgium, 14th March 1936; m. third, at Chelsea Register Office, London, 1945, Alfred Edgar Vere Barker, and d. by suicide, at Monte Carlo, July 1956), styled Nabila Malik Halim 1923-1930, daughter of Colonel Stanley Bird, MVO, late Egyptian Army, sometime c/o 1st Btn, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt), by his wife, Martha (Mattie) Pauline, younger daughter of Joseph Hovhannes Azarian, Snr, of Prinkipo, Princes’s Islands, Turkey, and of Boston Massachusettes, USA, banker and arms supplier, sometime Vice-Consul-Gen for the USA in Istanbul.

Married (third) at Caxton Hall, London, 8th December 1937 (civil) and at Cairo, Egypt, October 1945 (relig.) (div. at Cairo, 21st January 1951), Countess Blanche Louise Marika Posse (b. at Stockholm, Sweden, 31st March 1918; m. second, 2nd April 1956, Jens Lassen, and d. 28th June 2006), styled H.H. Princess Ni’matu’llah Halim 1945-1949, only daughter of Count Lage Göransson Posse, by his wife Louise Vilhelmina Mabel, daughter of Bernt Adolf Pontus Blüm, of Stockholm, Sweden, sometime company director.

Married (fourth) at Cairo, Egypt, 15th March 1949 (div. 1949) H.I.H. Princess Fatima Najla Sultana (b. at Cairo, Egypt, 14th September 1933; m. second, 1953 (div.) ‘Ali Zaki al-Mahdi Georges Mangos; m. third, 1960, Hans Randolph Germann, and d. at Madrid, Spain, 5th October 2006), daughter of H.I.H. Prince Muhammad Orkhan Effendi, 42nd Head of the Imperial House of Osman, by his first wife, H.H. Princess Nafia Khanum Effendi, daughter of (Sahib ul-Izza) ‘Ali Riza Yeghen Bey.

Married (fifth) at Mendrisio, Ticino, Switzerland, 10th September 1949 (div. 1952), Princess Elena Vadimovna Wolkonsky (Donna Helen Cicognani) (b. at Rome, Italy, 15th November 1924; m. third, at Rome, Italy, 15th October 1953, Ermenegildo Cicognani, advocate, by whom she had a son and three daughters, and d. at Villa Sant’ Elena, Albano, near Rome, Italy, before 3rd October 2011, bur. Cicognani cemetery, Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France), educ. in Paris, France, poet, sometime Presdt Assoc Gogol, styled H.H. Princess Elena Halim 1949-1952, former wife of Captain Kenneth Best, and only daughter of Prince Vadim Grigorievich Wolkonsky, of Palazzo Tcernysceva, Rome, Italy, by his second wife, Princess Elena Petrovna Wolkonsky, third daughter of His High Excellency Peotr Arkadyevitch Stolypin, GCVO, sometime Prime Minister & Presdt Council of Ministers of Russia.

Married (sixth) 1953, Birgit Margareta Halim (b. at Helsinki, Finland, 28th October 1925), educ. Tekniska Högskolan, Helsinki, Finland, architect and engineer, Town Planner State Engineering Office Malmo, Sweden 1963, Chief Town Planner Malmo 1972-1975, Chief Architect villiage of St Marin, Aix-en-Provence, France 1976-1989, Mbr Technical Assoc of Finland, International Fed for Housing & Planning, etc, author of “Turkiet Väntar” (1963), daughter of Georg Emil Andersson, by his wife, Anna Ingeborg.

He d. at Istanbul, Turkey, 13th January 1970, having had issue, two sons and two daughters:

(1) H.H. Prince Tarik Sa’id Halim (Tarek Said Halim). b. at Cairo, Egypt, 29th November 1945 (s/o Ni’matu’llah). m. at Stockholm, Sweden, 4th November 1968 (div. there, 4th July 1973) Laila Harriet Hedblom (b. at Stockholm, Sweden, 2nd December 1941), daughter of Robert Gyllenborg Hedblom, of Stockholm, Sweden, by his first wife, Gunhild Maria Dalström (Frau Nils August Johansson).
(2) Nabil ‘Umar Sa’id Halim [Omar Said Halim]. b. at Cairo, Egypt, 6th March 1947 (s/o Ni’matu’llah). A classical guitarist and music teacher.
(1) Nabila Farah Kérimée Halim. b. Paris, France, 28th November 1955. Married. at St Pancras, London, 27th March 1947 (civil) and at the Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking, Surrey, 1st April 1949 (relig.) (div. 24th March 1971) Major Bernard Hugh Gutteridge (b. at Southampton, Hampshire, 13th March 1916; married. second, at Kensington, London, 1971, Elizabeth A S Tegher, and d. at Camden, London, July 1985), educ. Cranleigh Sch, Cranleigh St Nicholas, Surrey, joined British army 1939, cmsnd as 2nd-Lieut Royal Hampshire Regt 29/6/1940, served in WWII 1939-1945 in Madagascar with Combined Ops and 36th Dvsn in Burma, temp Maj 1945, poet and author of “Traveller’s Eye” (1947), “The Agency Game” (1954), “Old Damson-Face: Poems 1934 to 1974” (1975), etc, translater of “The Locomotive” (1939) by J. Tuwim, rcvd: 39/45 and Burma Stars, British War and Defence medals (1945), Legionnaire of the US Legion of Merit (1945), son of Dr Bernard George Gutteridge, MRCS, LRCP, of Littlecroft, Southampton, Hampshire, late Capt RAMC, by his wife Mary, second daughter of William Baxter, Esq, of Huston. She d. at London, 24th March 2012, having had issue, four daughters:

(a) June Gutteridge. b. and d. at Westminster, London, June 1953.
(b) Lucy Karima Gutteridge. b. at Hammersmith, London, 28th November 1955. Film and TV actress. m. at Kensington Register Office, London, 1978, Andrew Hawkins (b. ca. 1949), son of Colonel John Edward Hawkins, CBE, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (aka Jack Hawkins, the actor), by his second wife, Doreen Mary Beadle (aka Doreen Lawrence, the actress), She has issue, one daughter:

(i) Alice Isabella Valentine Hawkins. b. at London, 14th February 1979, educ. Camberwell Coll of Art (BA 2002), London. Photographer and film maker, fashion model with “American Harper’s Bazaar” and “Russian Vogue”, “Topshop”, “Agent Provocateur”, etc.

(c) Ann-Marie Morwena Gutteridge. b. at Hammersmith, London, 11th August 1958.
(d) Cosima Farah Gutteridge. b. at Marylebone, London, 27th June 1962.

(2) Nabila Anissa [Anissa Nauckhoff Halim]. b. at Cairo, Egypt, 14th March 1954 (d/o Birgit), educ. Grännaskolan, Gränna, Sweden, La Chambre Syndical de la Haute Couture, Paris, France, Stockholm Univ, and Konstfackskolan, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Parsons Sch of Design (BFA), New York, USA. Architect and environmental designer. m. 12th November 1983, Henrik Nauckoff (b. 24th January 1955), Capt Swedish Coast Artillery Reserve, Dir SAS, second son of H.E. Carl-Henric Olof Herman, Baron Nauckhoff, of Bastad, Skania, Sweden, sometime Ambassador to Mexico, Cuba, Tunisia, and the Netherlands, by his first wife, Solveig Birgitta Elisabeth, Baroness Nauckhoff, daughter of Gustaf Linderholm. She has issue, one son:

(a) Jes Halim Nauckoff. b. at Copenhagen, Denmark, 23rd March 1985, educ. Concordia Univ, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Univ of East Anglia (BA 2009, Norwich, and Univ of Utrecht (MSc 2012), the Netherlands. Jnr Analyst Graduate Research Airis International Holdings LLC 2012, joined International Air Transport Assoc (IATA) 2013, Intern (Environmental Management) 2013-2014, Analyst (Aviation Environment) 2014-2015, Assist Mngr (Carbon Offset Systems) since 2015.

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Said Halim, Prince of Egypt, born 1897-12-18, died 1970-01-13 in Istanbul, son of Prince Muhammed Ali Halim and his wife Enise.

Married 1. ca. 1920 with Donna Maria Caracciolo from whom he divorced.

Married 2. 1923-05-00 in Cairo with Morwenna Bingham in her first marriage, from whom he divorced.

Married 3. 1937-12-08 i London with Blanche Louise Marika (Nina Fallah) Posse in her first marriage, from whom he divorced. Married for the second thime 1956-04-02 in Stockholm with architect Jens Lassen in his second marriage.

Married 4. 1949 in Cairo with Princess of Turkey, Fatma Necla, from whom he divorced, born 1933-09-14.

Married 5. 1949-09-05 with Duchess Helena Vadimovna Wolkonsky in her second marriage, from whom he divorced. born 1924-11-14 in Rome.

Married 6. 1953 with Finnish architect Birgit Andersson.

References

1. http://www.royalark.net/Egypt/egypt3.htm