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Royal News Recap for Thursday, March 13, 2025

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Royal News Recap for Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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Nazli Sabri, second wife of King Fuad I of Egypt

by Scott Mehl
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Nazli Sabri was the second wife of King Fuad I of Egypt, and the first Queen Consort of the Kingdom of Egypt. She was later stripped of her royal titles, and after converting to Catholicism, became Mary-Elizabeth Sabri.

source: Wikipedia

Nazli Sabri was born on June 25, 1894 in Alexandria, Egypt, one of five children of Abdel Rahim Sabri Pasha and Tawfika Sharif Hanim. She was educated at the Lycée de la Esclave-de-Dieu in Cairo and the Collège Notre-Dame de Sion in Alexandria before attending a boarding school in Paris. After returning to Egypt, she was forced to marry her first cousin, Khalil Sabri, but the marriage ended in divorce less than a year later.

Fuad I, c. 1910. source: Wikipedia

Nazli first met Sultan Fuad I (later King Fuad I) at the opera and he soon proposed. They married on May 24, 1919 at the Bustan Palace in Cairo. The couple had five children:

King Farouk (1920) – married (1) Safinaz Zulficar, 3 daughters: (2) Narriman Sadek, 1 son
Princess Fawzia (1921) – married (1) Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 1 daughter; (2) Ismail Chirine, 2 children
Princess Faiza (1923) – married Bulent Rauf, no issue
Princess Faika (1926) – married Fuad Sadek, 4 children
Princess Fathia (1930) – married Riyad Ghali, 3 children

Her activities as Queen were heavily restricted, only permitted to attend events such as the opera, and women-only events. This was very frustrating to Nazli, as she had lived a very different lifestyle prior to her marriage. However, she was one of the most popular members of the Egyptian royal family, both within Egypt as well as throughout Europe.

Queen Nazli with her son, King Farouk, and her four daughters c:1938. source: Wikipedia

In 1936, King Fuad died and was succeeded by the young Farouk, overseen by a Regency Council which included Nazli’s brother, Sherif. Ten years later, suffering from some health issues, Queen Nazli traveled to the United States to undergo medical treatment. Following surgery, she decided to settle in California, along with her youngest daughters, Faika and Fathia.

Queen Nazli (center) at the wedding of her daughter, Fawzia, to the Crown Prince of Iran, 1939. source: Wikipedia

In 1950, Princess Fathia married Riyad Ghali, an advisor to the Royal Family, and a Coptic Christian. Despite his conversion to Islam, the new King did not approve or give his consent to the marriage. Because Nazli supported her daughter, King Farouk stripped Nazli and Fathia of their royal titles and styles, as well as confiscating their properties in Egypt and banning them from ever returning. Queen Nazli later converted to Catholicism, and changed her name to Mary-Elizabeth Sabri.

For many years, she lived in a large mansion in Beverly Hills, California, with Fathia and her family. However, Fathia’s husband squandered much of their fortune, and the couple divorced. Relatively impoverished – at least by Royal standards – she was forced to auction off many of her jewels in order to survive.

Mary-Elizabeth Sabri – the former Queen Nazli of Egypt – died in Los Angeles on May 29, 1978. She is buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

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Royal News Recap for Monday, March 10, 2025

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Royal News Recap for Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9, 2025

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Royal News Recap for Wednesday, March 5, 2025

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Princess Shivakiar Ibramin, first wife of King Fuad I of Egypt

by Scott Mehl
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Shivakiar Ibrahim was the first wife of Prince Ahmed Fuad, who later became King Fuad I of Egypt. She was considered to be one of the richest women in Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia. By Retrieverlove – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35582656

Princess Shivakiar was born October 25, 1876 in Üsküdar, Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire, the only daughter of Prince Ibrahim Fahmi Pasha and his first wife, Nevjiwan Hanim.

On May 31, 1895 she married Prince Ahmed Fuad (later King Fuad I of Egypt) at the Abbasiya Palace in Cairo. The couple were first cousins once removed (her father was his first cousin). They had two children:

  • Prince Ismail Fuad (1896) – died in infancy
  • Princess Fawkia (1897) – married twice, one son

Shivakiar and her first husband, Prince Ahmed Fuad (later King Fuad I). source: Wikipedia By Retrieverlove – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35582655

The couple divorced in 1898, following a dispute between Shivakiar’s brother and her husband, which had involved her brother shooting Fuad in the throat. Fuad survived, but the marriage did not.

Shivakiar went on to marry four more times and have several more children:

  • Marriage #2 – Raouf Thabet Bey – married 1900, divorced 1903, no issue
  • Marriage #3 – Seyfullah Yousri Pasha – married 1904, divorced 1916, two children
  • Marriage #4 – Selim Khalil Bey – married 1917, divorced 1925, one son
  • Marriage #5 – Ilhami Hüseyin Pasha – married 1927, no issue

Despite her divorce from Prince Ahmed Fuad, she retained her title of Princess, as well as her position at court, and remained close to the Egyptian royal family. She was very involved in philanthropy, serving as president of the Muhammad Ali Benevolent Society, and the Mar’al-Guedida (‘New Woman’), an organization that provided training and education for young women.

By Retrieverlove – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35583240

Princess Shivakiar died at the Kasr al-Aali Palace in Cairo on February 17, 1947. Her tomb, in the Hosh al-Basha mausoleum in Cairo, is designed as a large unmade bed, as per her specific wishes.

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Royal News Recap for Monday, March 3, 2025

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Royal News Recap for Saturday, March 1 and Sunday, March 2, 2025

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Royal News Recap for Thursday, February 27, 2025

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