Later Life
Amr spent the rest of his life in the United Kingdom, where he and his children obtained British citizenship. However, he also kept his Egyptian nationality. In 1972, he visited the Egyptian Consulate-General in London in order to renew his Egyptian passport, which had been expired for more than 15 years. Although he succeeded in obtaining a new passport, Amr requested to keep his expired royal passport as a souvenir, since it bore the inscription "Ambassador of the King of Egypt and the Sudan to the United Kingdom." The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo did not object to his request. According to Mustafa El-Fiki, a career diplomat who met Amr at the Consulate-General in London in 1972, the former squash player and ambassador told him that he did not hold a grudge against the leaders of the 1952 coup, even though they had sidelined him. Amr acknowledged during their encounter that several mistakes had been committed during the monarchical era, and expressed his enthusiasm for the reforms being implemented at the time by President Anwar El Sadat, who had ascended to the presidency two years earlier.
Amr has been confirmed deceased by Squashsite. However, his year of death has not been reported.
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