 In April 1950, the trio had relocated to San Francisco, where Nazli announced that Ghali was converting to Islam and was engaged to Princess Fathia.Farouk forbade the marriage; ordered his mother and sister back to Egypt; fired Ghali from the Foreign Ministry and stripped him of his Egyptian citizenship, and forbade the imam of Sacramento (the only imam in California in 1950) from conducting the marriage.Despite Farouk's best efforts to stop the marriage, an imam from Pakistan came to conduct the marriage in San Francisco, which led Farouk to issue decrees stripping his mother and his sister of their royal titles and in addition confiscated all land that his mother owned in Egypt.