Fausia of Egypt
Fausia bint Fuad of Egypt ( Arabic فوزية بنت الملك فؤاد, Persian فوزیه فؤاد; * 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 the Raʾs-at-Tīn Palace in Alexandria . Her brother was the future Egyptian king Faruq .
The Iranian King Reza Shah selected Fausia from several candidates for his son as his future wife. During his state visit to Turkey, Reza Shah discussed this question with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , who, like Reza Shah, believed that this marriage would be in the interests of Iran, Egypt and all countries in the region. On March 16, 1939, at the age of 17, Fausia married the Iranian Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, three years her senior, in Cairo . At that time she was considered the most beautiful woman in Egypt . After their arrival in Iran, the wedding ceremony in Tehran was repeated according to the Shiite rite. The citizenship of Fausia posed a constitutional problem. According to the Iranian constitution, the Shah of Iran had to be descended from Iranian parents. This meant that Fausia had to be granted Iranian citizenship if her future son was to become the Shah of Iran. On November 29, 1939, the Iranian parliament passed a law declaring Fausia an "Iranian woman of Iranian descent".
After the abdication of his father Reza Shah , forced by the British , Mohammad Reza was sworn in as king and thus second Shah of the Pahlavi dynasty in parliament ( Majlis ) on September 17, 1941 . As the wife of Mohammad Reza Shah, Fausia became queen.
Fausia appeared on the cover of Life magazine on September 21, 1942 , photographed by Cecil Beaton , who described her as "Asiatic Venus" with a "perfect heart-shaped and strangely pale face with piercing blue eyes."
The marriage arranged by the fathers was unhappy; above all, no male heir to the throne was born. In June 1945 Fausia left the Shah and returned to Egypt. Their marriage officially ended in divorce on November 19, 1948. The daughter Shahnaz (born October 27, 1940) comes from the marriage .
On March 28, 1949, Fausia married the Egyptian Minister Ismail Husain Schirin (1919-1994). From then on she was called Fawzia Shirin and lived with her husband near Cairo. With him she had two other children, Nadia (* 1950) and Muhammed (* 1955). After the fall of King Faruq I on July 23, 1952 and the proclamation of the Republic of Egypt , she lost her royal title of "princess". Her nephew, the former King Fu'ad II , currently lives in Switzerland.
News of Fausia's alleged cancer death in January 2005 was false. She was confused by journalists with her niece Princess Fazia (Fevziye) (1940-2005), one of the three daughters of King Faruq . Fausia only died in Egypt in July 2013 at the age of 91.
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Wedding of Fausia and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Cairo (1939)
Fausia, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi with daughter Shahnaz (1941)
Fausia in Egypt after her return from Iran (1948)
Fausia with her second husband Ismail Schirin (1949)
Web links
- False death report ( memento from April 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the Netzeitung
Individual evidence
- ↑ Egyptian Princess Fausia died on rp-online.de v. 3rd July 2013
- ↑ Gholam Reza Afkhami: The life and times of the Shah. University of California Press, 2009, p. 41.
- ↑ Gholam Reza Afkhami: The life and times of the Shah. UC University Press, 2009. p. 43.
| predecessor | Office | Successor |
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| Tadj ol-Molouk |
Queen Consort of Iran 1941–1948 |
Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiary |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fausia of Egypt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fawzia; Fausia bint Fuad; Fawzieh; Shirin, Fawzia; Shirin, Fawzia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | persian queen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Raʾs-at-Tīn Palace , Alexandria |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd of July 2013 |
| Place of death | Alexandria |