Fawzia Fuad of Egypt
Queen consort of Iran from 1941 to 1948
- Fame62.3
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- Egypt rank#161
- Fame62.3
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An Egyptian princess married off to Iran's future Shah in a 1939 deal meant to lift the Pahlavis by proximity to older, grander royalty — then spent the rest of her long life refusing to speak about any of it.
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Fawzia was born in 1921, daughter of Egypt's King Fuad I, and at eighteen became the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, then Iran's Crown Prince. The marriage was arranged to shore up Egyptian regional influence and lend the upstart Iranian monarchy a sheen of legitimacy through blood ties to a more established throne. The press called her the "sad queen." She divorced him under Egyptian law in 1948, leaving their daughter Shahnaz to be raised in Iran, and the following year married an Egyptian diplomat, Colonel Ismail Chirine, with whom she had two more children. After the 1952 revolution t…
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