Fuad I of Egypt

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Fuad I of Egypt
Sultan of Egypt and Sudan, King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, Kordofan and Darfur
Reign October 9, 1917 – April 28, 1936
Full name Ahmed Fuad
Born March 26, 1868
Birthplace Cairo, Egypt
Died April 28, 1936
Place of death Cairo, Egypt
Predecessor Husayn Kamil
Successor Farouk
Consort Shivakiar Khanum Effendi
Nazli Sabri
Issue Ismail Fuad
Fawkia
Farouk
Fawzia
Faiza
Faika
Fathiya
Dynasty Muhammad Ali Dynasty
Father Isma'il Pasha
Mother Farial Kadin

Fuad I, born Ahmed Fuad, (Arabic: فؤاد الأول Fu'ād al-Awwal), (March 26, 1868 - April 28, 1936), was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, Kordofan, and Darfur. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan of Egypt and Sudan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Sultan Husayn Kamil. He substituted the title of King for Sultan when the United Kingdom formally recognized Egyptian independence in 1922.

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[edit] Reign

Fuad struggled with the Wafd party throughout his reign. In 1930, he attempted to strengthen the power of the Crown by abrogating the 1923 constitution and replacing it with a new constitution that limited the role of parliament to advisory status only. Large scale public dissatisfaction compelled him to restore the earlier constitution in 1935.

[edit] Family

Fuad was born in Giza Palace in Cairo, the seventh son of Isma'il Pasha. His mother was Farial Kadin. As a great-grandson of Muhammad Ali Pasha, Fuad was of Albanian descent. He married his first wife in Cairo, May 30, 1895 at the Abbasiya Palace in Cairo, February 14, 1896, H.H. Princess Shivakiar Khanum Effendi (1876-1947). She was his cousin and the only daughter of Field Marshal H.H. Prince Ibrahim Fahmi Ahmad Pasha. They had two children, a son, Ismail Fuad, who died in infancy, and a daughter, Fawkia. Unhappily married, the couple divorced in 1898. During a dispute with the brother of his first wife, Fuad was shot in the throat. He survived, but carried that scar the rest of his life.

Fuad married his second wife at the Bustan Palace, Cairo, May 26, 1919. She was Nazli Sabri (1894-1978), 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, and a great-granddaughter of Suleiman Pasha, a French officer in Napoleon's army who converted to Islam and reorganized the Egyptian army. The couple had five children, the future Farouk I and four daughters, the Princesses Fawzia (who became Queen Consort of Iran), Faiza, Faika, and Fathiya.

As with his first wife, Fuad's relation with his second wife was also stormy. The couple continually fought; Fuad even forbidding Nazli from leaving the palace. When Fuad died, it was said that the triumphant Nazli sold all of his clothes to a local used-clothes market in revenge. Fuad died at the Qubba Palace in Cairo and was buried at the Khedival Mausoleum in the ar-Rifai Mosque in Cairo.

[edit] Marriages

1.Shivakiar Khanum Effendi (1876-1947)

Children

2.Nazli Sabri (1894-1978)

Children

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Fuad I of Egypt
Born: 26 March 1868 Died: 28 April 1936
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Husayn Kāmil		 Sultan of Egypt and Sudan
9 October 1917 – 11 November 1922		 Change of title
New title
Sultanate elevated to kingdom
 King of Egypt and Sudan
11 November 1922 – 28 April 1936		 Succeeded by
Fārūq I