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SOARS, Thomas. I Married a Princess: the True Love Story of How an English Naval Sub-lieutenant Came to Marry a Persian Princess During World War II. x, 202p., illus. Bognor Regis: Woodfield, 2009. ISBN: 1846830648.

He was an administrative officer based at HMS Sphinx - a temporary wartime Royal Navy shore base and accommodation camp at Sidi Bishr, just outside Alexandria, where he met and married a grand-daughter of the former Shah of Persia. Describes his day to day life and its tribulations.

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The Battle for the Mediterranean; Royal Navy Autobiographies & Biographies;

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