A British consul-general, not the khedive, actually governed Egypt after 1882

Evidence

The authority to whom Alï Pasha appealed was the government of Egypt, but he was well aware that this was not a government run by Egyptians. Instead of sending his petition to the Egyptian khedive Abbas Hilmï II, `Alï Pasha sent it to Lord Cromer, the British consul-general who had run the economic and political infrastructure of the country since the British military occupation of 1882. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 47

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with Sudan, which came under Anglo-Egyptian condominium rule — relevant to reader’s Egypt-vs-Sudan comparison