family’s ‘dash to London’
THE panic-stricken family of President Mubarak has reportedly fled Egypt for the luxurious refuge of their £8.5million London townhouse.
The leader's son Gamal, 47, is said to have spearheaded the move, flying to Britain on a private jet with his own family and NINETY-SEVEN pieces of luggage.
He owns the six-floor Georgian mansion a stone's throw from Harrods in Knightsbridge, West London.
But according to rumours sweeping Britain's Egyptian community, the President, 82, and wife Suzanne, 69, are also planning to head to the ritzy five-bed haven.
Egyptian baggage handlers at Heathrow are even said to have already spotted the First Lady arriving at the airport.
Mubarak is said to have amassed a £25billion fortune for his family since grabbing power in 1981.
Suzanne, Gamal and older son Alaa, 49, have become symbols of excess and corruption in Egypt.
Half-Welsh Suzanne has even been nicknamed Marie Antoinette after the opulence-loving Queen who lost her head in the French Revolution.
The fashion-loving First Lady holds a British passport because mum Lily May Palmer was a Brit - whose dad was a miner who went on to manage a colliery in Pontypridd.
Lily was working as a nurse when she met and married Egyptian medical student Saleh Thabet in North London in 1934.
They then moved back to his country where Suzanne was born in 1941.
She has said of her British roots: "I am comfortable in both cultures, in both languages, in both worlds."