Fawzia Fuad of Egypt
Fausia bint Fuad of Egypt (Arabic فوزية بنت الملك فؤاد, Persian فوزیه فؤاد; born November 5, 1921 in Alexandria, Egypt; † July 2, 2013 ibid ) was the wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi queen of Iran.
Life
Fausia (also Fawzieh ) was a daughter of King Fuad I and Queen Nazli Sabri ( 1894-1978 ); she was born in Ras al - Tine palace in Alexandria. Her brother was the later Egyptian King Farouk.
The Iranian king Reza Shah sought Fausia from among several candidates for his son as a future wife. On his state visit in Turkey, Reza Shah had discussed this issue with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who was like Reza Shah believed that this marriage in the interest of Iran, Egypt, and all countries in the region would be. On March 16, 1939 Fausia married at the age of 17 years, three years his senior Iranian Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Cairo. At this time it was regarded as the most beautiful woman in Egypt. After their arrival in Iran, the wedding ceremony in Tehran was repeated after Shiite rite. The nationality of Fausia however, presented a constitutional problem dar. According to the Iranian Constitution, the Shah of Iran by Iranian parents had descended. This meant that Fausia the Iranian nationality had to be awarded when her future son Shah of Iran should be. On 29 November 1939, the Iranian Parliament passed a law with the Fausia was declared the " Iranian woman with Iranian origin ."
After the forced abdication of his father by the British Reza Shah Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi so second dynasty in the Parliament ( Majlis ) has on 17 September 1941 as King and sworn. As the wife of Mohammad Reza Shah Fausia was associated with Queen.
Fausia appeared 21 September 1942 on the cover of Life magazine, photographed by Cecil Beaton, who with a "perfect heart-shaped and strangely pale face with piercing blue eyes " described as " Asian Venus".
The marriage was arranged by the fathers granted no luck; especially no male heir was born. In June 1945 Fausia left the Shah and returned to Egypt. Officially, their marriage ended in divorce on 19 November 1948. From this marriage the daughter Shahnaz comes ( born October 27, 1940).
On March 28, 1949 Fausia married the Egyptian Minister Ismail Hussain Shirin ( 1919-1994 ). She wore from this date the name Fawzia Shirin and lived with her husband near Cairo. With him she had two more children, Nadia ( born 1950 ) and Muhammed ( b. 1955 ). After the overthrow of King Farouk I on July 1952 and the proclamation of the Republic of Egypt 23 she lost her royal title "Princess ". Her nephew, the former King Fu'ad II, currently living in Switzerland.
A message about the supposed death from cancer of Fausia in January 2005 was wrong. She was obviously confused by journalists with her niece Princess Fazia ( Fevziye ) ( 1940-2005 ), one of three daughters of King Farouk. Fawzia only died in July 2013 at the age of more than 91 years in Egypt.
Gallery
Fausia, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi with daughter Shahnaz (1941 )
Fausia in Egypt after their return from Iran (1948 )
Fausia with her second husband Ismail Shirin (1949 )