 Thabet selected Narriman Sadek to be the new bride of the king, notwithstanding she was already engaged to Zaki Hachem, a PhD candidate in economics at Harvard who was working in New York as a United Nations economist.After Farouk had made Sadek's father a bey, he broke off her engagement to Hackhem who complained to the American press that the king had stolen his fiancée and broken his heart.After Farouk announced his engagement to Sadek, he sent her off to Rome to be taught how to be a proper cultured lady to make her fit to be a queen.