Nazli Sabri

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Nazli Sabri

1 Introduction
2 History
- 2.1 Children
- 2.2 Life
3 Categories

[edit] Introduction

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, Minister of Agriculture and Governor of Cairo, by his wife, Tawfika Khanum Sharif. Queen Nazli also was the maternal granddaughter of Major-General H.E. Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs. She was also a great-grand-daughter of Suleiman Pasha.

[edit] History

[edit] Children

Queen Nazli had five children:

Future Farouk I
Princesses Fawzia:
Faiza
Faika
Fathiya.

[edit] Life

After a prolonged rift with her son, King Farouk, she left Egypt and travelled to Rome where she converted to Catholicism in 1950 and took the name Mary Elizabeth. In turn she was deprived of her rights and titles in Egypt by her son on August 1 of that same year. She eventually settled in the United States where she died in Los Angeles, California, and is buried at the Garden of the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.