Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt

According to the book "the greatest contemporary events" by Fouad Saleh El-Sayed, Hussein Kamel is the eighth ruler of Egypt from the family of Muhammad Ali Pasha, and the first to come to power after the state of the khedives, when the first World War broke out and the last Khedive, Abbas Helmy II, stepped down, Hussein Kamel was appointed in his place, and he was the first to turn the Egyptian Khedive into a sultanate.

The great writer Saeed Al-shehat says in his book "Once Upon a time": Khedive Abbas II was in the Austrian capital" Vienna "at the Imperial Hotel, when the Official Gazette in Egypt and the automobile newspapers were issued on the morning of December 19, this day, 1914, and in it an announcement was also hung on the walls in Cairo, Alexandria and all over the Egyptian country in visible places, according to Ahmed Shafik Pasha, head of the Khedive's court, in the first parts of his series" political annals of Egypt - preface".
The text of the announcement read:"the Foreign Minister of the government of the king of Great Britain announces that due to the fact that His Highness Abbas Helmy Pasha, the former Khedive of Egypt, joined the enemies of the king, His Majesty's government considered removing him from the post of Khedive, 

What was Hussein Kamel doing before he took power?

Before the Sultanate, Hussein Kamel took over the Public Works Department, then the finance department, and headed the Shura Council of laws, as he meant agriculture and farmers ' affairs in Egypt, and he died and did not do much work during his reign.

What is the Egyptian Sultanate

The Sultanate of Egypt is the name of the Egyptian state under the British protectorate between 1914 and 1922, where the British protectorate was declared over Egypt after the British deposed the Khedive Abbas Helmy II and installed his uncle Hussein Kamel as Sultan in 1914 at the beginning of the First World War.

The purpose of ending the khedivate and declaring the Egyptian Sultanate was to end the nominal sovereignty of the Ottomans over Egypt.

In 1917, he took over the rule from Sultan Hussein Kamel, his brother Fuad I, who was titled Sultan of Egypt until 1922, when Britain unilaterally announced the termination of the protection of the United Kingdom over Egypt by what was known as the "declaration of February 28, 1922" to make this date the date of the establishment of the Egyptian kingdom.

The departure of Hussein Kamel

Sultan Hussein Kamel, the eighth who took over the rule of Egypt from the family of Muhammad Ali Pasha, died at noon on October 9, 1917, at the Abdeen Palace in Cairo, after he was struck by illness at the beginning of the month, which did not take him long, he passed away quickly, and his funeral was held and buried in the tombs of the Alawite family at the Rifai mosque in Cairo, and his eldest son, Prince Kamal al-Din Hussein, was supposed to rule, but he waived any rights to rule, and then the choice of the English fell on Prince Fuad, the youngest son of Khedive Ismail and the younger brother of Khedive Tawfik and Sultan Hussein Kamel to install him as Sultan of Egypt, and to be the ninth to rule Egypt from the Alawite family, and the third to rule from the Sons of Khedive Ismail.