prevent his progeny, however, from exercising their rights. Abbas II finally accepted the new order on 12 May 1931 and formally abdicated. He retired to Switzerland, where he wrote The Anglo-Egyptian Settlement (1930). He died at Geneva on 19 December 1944, aged 70, 30 years to the day after the end of his reign as Khedive. Marriages and issue His first marriage in Cairo on 19 February 1895 was to Ikbal Hanem (Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, 22 October 1876Istanbul, 10 February 1941), and they had six children, two sons and four daughters: Princess Emine Helmy (Montaza Palace, Alexandria, 12 February 18951954), unmarried and without issue Princess Atiyetullah (Cairo, 9 June 18961971), married first Jalaluddin Pasha (Caucasus 1885Istanbul 1930), fourth son of Mehmed Ferid Pasha, married second Ahmad Shavkat Bey Bayur, second son of Kâmil Pasha. She had issue two sons by her first Husband. Princess Fethiye (27 November 189730 November 1923), married Hami Bey, without issue. Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim, Heir Apparent and Regent of Egypt and Sudan (Montaza Palace, Alexandria, 20 February 1899Istanbul, 1 December 1979), married Fatma Neslişah (Nişantaşı Palace, Istanbul 4 February 1921Heliopolis Palace, Cairo 2 April 2012) in Cairo 26 September 1940, and had two children: Prince Sultanzade Abbas Helmy (born 1941), married and had one daughter and one son Princess İkbal Helmy Abdulmunim Hanımsultan (born 1944), unmarried and without issue Princess Lutfiya Shavkat (Lütfiye Şevket) (Cairo, 29 September 19001975 Cairo), married Omar Muhtar Katırcıoğlu (Çamlıca, Turkey 1902Istanbul 15 July 1935), third son of Mahmud Muhtar Pasha and Princess Nimetullah Khanum Effendi, a daughter of Isma'il Pasha, on 5 May 1923 and had two daughters: Emine Neşedil Katırcıoğlu (born 1927), widow who had three daughters Zehra Kadriye Katırcıoğlu (Istanbul 12 March 1929Istanbul 15 May 2012), married Ahmet Cevat Tugay and had four sons and a daughter Prince Muhammed Abdel Kader (4 February 1902Montreux, 21 April 1919) His second marriage in Çubuklu, Turkey on 1 March 1910 was to Hungarian noblewoman Marianna Török de Szendrö, who took the name Zübeyde Cavidan Hanım (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., 8 January 1874after 1951). They divorced in 1913 without issue. Honours Notes Footnotes References Further reading External links Al-Ahram on Abbas in exile |- |- |- 1874 births 1944 deaths Dethroned monarchs Monarchs who abdicated 19th-century Egyptian monarchs 20th-century Egyptian monarchs Khedives of Egypt Muhammad Ali dynasty Egyptian expatriates in Austria Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland Albanians from the Ottoman Empire Egyptian people of