Nazli Sabri

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Nazli Sabri (Arabic: نزلي صبري‎) (June 25, 1894 - May 29, 1978), was the Queen consort of Egypt (May 26, 1919 - April 28, 1936) as the second wife of King Fuad. She was the daughter of H.E. Abdu'r-Rahim Pasha Sabri, sometime Minister of Agriculture and Governor of Cairo, by his wife, Tawfika Khanum Sharif. Queen Nazli also was a maternal granddaughter of Major-General H.E. Muhammad Sharif Pasha, sometime Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs. She was also a great-grand-daughter of Suleiman Pasha.

Queen Nazli had five children, the future Farouk I and four daughters, the Princesses Fawzia, Faiza, Faika, and Fathiya. After a prolonged rift with her son, King Farouk, she left Egypt and went to Rome where she converted to Catholicism in 1950 and took the name Mary Elizabeth. In consequence she was deprived of her rights and titles in Egypt by her son on August 1 of that year. She eventually settled in the United States. She died in Los Angeles, California, and is buried at the Garden of the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.