Irma Capece Minutolo
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Donna Irma Capece Minutolo (born 6 August 1935) is an Italian former opera singer who was the last -and for many years secret- wife of King Farouk I of Egypt.
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[edit] Family
She was born in Naples, Italy, daughter of Prince Don Augusto Capece Minutolo, one of the oldest and most important Neapolitan families.
[edit] Declaration of marriage to King Farouk I
In 2005, in an interview with Al-Ahram Weekly, Capece Minutolo said that she married Farouk "in the Islamic tradition" when she was 16 and that she was writing a memoir of her life as the king's wife.[1]
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OFFICIAL WEBSITES
[edit] External links
Second official website, about the Royal House of Egypt during the italian exile
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