Like today, 80 years ago, a Greek bellboy, stole the sister of the King of Iraq!

80 years ago, it was May 28, 1936, the Greek and the international press employed…
the kidnapping of the sister of the King of Iraq by a Greek hotel clerk!
The story unfolded in Rhodes and specifically in the prestigious “Hotel of Roses”, where they catalyze the princesses Azar and Ραχιτζά, sisters of the King of Iraq Gazi, the son of emir Faisal.
The two sisters had started several weeks ago from their home country for a tourist tour around Europe, but “stuck” in Rhodes, where there was a fateful meeting. The 25-year-old houseboy Anastasios Charalambous, as a linguist, and a connoisseur of antiquities of the island, was detached from the address of the hotel in the service of. Followed the romance with the 30-year-old Azar, whose abduction incited the Italian authorities of the Dodecanese as well as the embassies of England and of Turkey.
The newspaper reports, which described the fact, was closed, however, with the good news that there was a happy ending of romance on May 27, 1936, in Athens…
George N. Μουσταΐρα
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