- If some countries of the world witnessed the abandonment of some kings and princes from the “throne” for the sake of love and marriage to whomever he loves, then in the history of Egypt, those who gave up the throne out of love for horses, and a desire to take care of them, take care of them. He is a horse lover, Prince Kamal al-Din Hussein.. He was occupied with looking after the affairs of the farmer, and he sent the Scottish veterinarian Branch to England to buy 18 horses.
Prince Kamal El-Din Hussein is considered one of the most influential Egyptian breeders in the production of purebred Arabian horses in Egypt in the early ninth century.
And there was a competition between him and Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq, and the horses of the Royal Agricultural Society, and this competition aimed to improve horse production, and get the best of them.
Records state that Prince Kamal al-Din frequently loaned his divorced horses to the Royal Agricultural Society, and borrowed their divorced horses for his breeding and breeding programmes.
Prince Kamal El-Din Hussein donated his private library to the Horse Department of the Royal Agricultural Society, and it still exists today. It contains many rare books, including a collection in French.
He headed the animal husbandry department of the Agricultural Society during the reign of his father, Sultan Hussein Kamel, and gave great attention to horse breeding. The Scottish veterinarian Branch sent the head of the Bahtim horse breeding department to England to buy 18 bullets. Farsah Bint Riala and Bint Risala are from the stables of “Krabet”, which is owned by “Lady Anne Plant”, and she was raised in Egypt by the stables of Sheikh Obaid.
The divorce of Prince Kamal Al-Din Hussein improves horse production in the governorates
Prince Kamal El-Din Hussein worked to spread the divorce of the Egyptian Agricultural Society in the directorates of the Egyptian country; To improve horse production in the governorates. After the death of his father, he took his place in the presidency of the Royal Agricultural Society from April 20, 1915 to August 6, 1932, until he died to the mercy of God Almighty. From time to time, he made great valuable maps from both artistic and scientific points of view.
Prince Kamal al-Din Hussein visited Lady Anne Blunt when the Royal Agricultural Society presented the mare Ghadia, who is also called “Razia” and beautiful and the horse is beautiful, and gave her his thanks himself in the stables of Sheikh Obaid.
Lady Anne Blunt says in her memoirs that on May 9, 1917, Prince Hussein al-Din Kamal Ibn Sultan visited her at her farm in Ain Shams, and it was a wonderful visit. Her notes that she had sent a mare to the Society as a gift named Karma, but Dr. Branch told her that the mare was in a hopeless condition, and asked her to send another one; So that the Sultan’s son might be happy, she sent a dowry instead, and Dr. Branch told her he was looking for horses to buy for the Royal Agricultural Society; for vaccination breeding program.
Did Prince Kamal El Din Hussein buy Anne Plant’s horses?
In December 1917 Lady Anne Plant died, and all her horses were put up for sale; Due to the outbreak of World War II and the impossibility of horses traveling from Egypt to the Crabbet farm in England, the horses were sold, as an unknown buyer purchased all the horses for 1,200 Egyptian pounds, after which it was said that the buyer was the Greek merchant Kdagli, who sold the mare “Dora” to the association. Egyptian agriculture in 1924. This assumption may be untrue; Because he may have bought this mare from someone.
There is a real assumption, which is that Prince Kamal Al-Din Hussein is the buyer, and the evidence for this is the lineage of the horses that he sold to the royal estate in Inshas in 1930, as well as the horses that he gifted, and it is possible that Kadaghli was the one who purchased the horses of Sheikh Obaid’s stables for the benefit of Prince Kamal Al-Din Hussein, It is certain that the Prince kept these horses, which trace their origins back to the horses of Ali Pasha Sharif.
Names of some of Anne Blunt’s posthumous horses
Lady Anne Plant’s farm in Egypt was rich in thoroughbreds of Arabian horses, and was sold after her death; for the impossibility of transferring it to England; As a result of the Second World War, and we publish a list of the names of the horses we were able to get, which are:
Sarah: a blue Saqlawan mare, her father is Sahab and her mother is Jamila. She was born in 1915 in the stables of Sheikh Obaid.
Fayda: a Saqlawiya mare, whose father is Jamil, and the mother is Bint Hurra “Jazia”, born in 1910 in the stables of Sheikh Obaid.
Dalal: a red mare, a lustful rogue, born in 1910 in the stables of Sheikh Obaid, her father is Jamil and her mother is a daughter of Bahrain.
Zarifa: a blue mare, a Saqlawiya jadari, her father is Sahab and her mother is Radhi. She was born in 1911 in the stables of Sheikh Obaid, and she has a dowry named Rashid from father Jamil.
Prince Kamal al-Din Hussein sent Dr. Branch, Director of the Department of Education to England in 1919; In order to purchase more horses belonging to Ali Pasha Sharif from the Crabeet stables, Branch bought two foals and 18 males for the Agricultural Society.
He also bought the horse Talluqa Rustam bin Estherald and Rawdah, Kahilan Rodani, and the horse Sattam bin Estherald and his mother Salma, Hamdania Samaria.
The stables of Prince Kamal El-Din Hussein were located in Saft Khaled, and were run by Dr. Branch, and the prince preferred to train his horses to ride and race.
The most important mare that Henry Babson bought from Prince Kamal al-Din Hussein
In 1932, the famous American horse breeder Henry Babson bought the mare Bint Sarah, her father the horse Sattam and her mother the mare Sarah, produced by Prince Kamal Al-Din Hussein.
Babson says of Prince Kamal al-Din Hussein that he was destined to become the next king, but he was poisoned, he went to Europe, he was an explorer, and we visited his hut under the Nile, and the hut had a huge map showing places in North Africa, where he explored and hunted.
The legitimate heir.. We publish the letter of Prince Kamal Al-Din Hussein’s abdication from the throne
Prince Kamal al-Din Hussein renounced his acceptance of the throne in his immortal book, which he sent to his father, Sultan Hussein before his death, saying: “With my complete devotion to your honorable person, and your venerable judgment, I am fully convinced that my staying as I am now enables me to serve my country more than I can serve it.” In another case, therefore, I hope you will allow me to waive every right, capacity, or claim that I could have held in the inheritance of the throne of the Egyptian Sultanate as your only son…”
Prince Kamal al-Din Hussein is the first to sign the statement of the five princes and their famous patriotic call, which they issued on January 3, 1923; To declare in it their solidarity with the ranks of the nation in demanding its legitimate rights to freedom and independence, in which they say: “Therefore we have come, not to share the nation’s aims only, but to join our chests with the hearts of its members, and place our hands in theirs, so that we are but one soul… “.
