Humaira Begum

Homaira Begum Shah ( born July 24, 1918 † 26 June 2002, Rome) was the wife of the Shah of Afghanistan Mohammed Zahir Shah.

Life

The then 18 -year-old Mohammed Zahir Shah married on 7 November 1931, the 13 -year-old Homairah Begum. Your marriage produced eight children:

• Bilqis Begum ( born 1932 )
• Mohammed Akbar Khan ( August 10, 1933, † November 26, 1942 )
• Ahmad Shah Khan ( b. 1934 ), Crown Prince
• Maryam Begum ( b. 1936 )
• Mohammed Nadir Khan ( b. 1941 )
• Shah Mahmud Khan ( November 15, 1946, † December 2002)
• Mohammed Daoud Khan Pashtunyar ( b. 1949 )
• Mir Wais Khan (* 1957)

After the palace coup in 1972, the royal couple lived in exile in a villa in the Roman suburb celebrity Olgiata. Six years before her death she fell ill with a light allergy, it eclipsed her bedroom, which she left only rarely.