Death of a Prince: Murder at the Savoy, 1923 by Mark John Maguire

Following an evening out in the West End of London, Prince Ali Fahmy and his glamorous wife Princess Marguerite Alibert, rowed very publicly over dinner at the Savoy. In the early hours of the morning, the 23 year old Prince lay dead in their apartment, shot 3 times by his wife. To the police it seemed an open and shut case of murder against her but Princess Marguerite had an unbeatable card to play: as a high class French prostitute she had been the mistress of the Prince of Wales, who had sent her many letters of an explicit nature. She had, of course, kept them