page_title: Narriman Sadek
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Narriman Sadek / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Nariman Sadek (1933–2005), the last Queen Consort of Egypt. According to this French-language caption, the photograph was taken a few days before King Farouk I and Queen Nariman's wedding ceremony, which took place in Abdeen Palace on 6 May 1951. العربية: الملكة ناريمان
context_page_description: Narriman Sadek was the daughter of Hussain Fahmi Sadiq Bey, a high-ranking official in the Egyptian government, and his wife Asila Kamil; she was the second wife of King Farouk and the last Queen of Egypt.
context_section_description: Her name in the Turkish language means "The beautiful fascinating of vivacious spirit".
  Her father was  Hussain Fahmi Sadiq Bey, Deputy Minister of Transportation. He was the son of Ali Sadiq Bey, one of the famous honorable personalities of Egypt at that time, and a son of Muhammad Sadek Pasha. The last position he occupied before his death was the Secretary General of the Ministry of Transportation. Her mother was Asila Khanum, daughter of Kamel Mahmoud, one of the famous honorable personalities of Minya Governorate.
  Farouk divorced his first wife, Queen Farida, in 1948, after a ten-year marriage in which she had produced three daughters, but no male heir. In a bid to ensure his succession, and also to rekindle some public enthusiasm towards a decaying dynasty, he let it be known that he was in the market for a new bride, preferably an Egyptian, well-heeled but not of the aristocracy.
caption: Narriman days before her wedding ceremony, which took place in Abdeen Palace on 6 May 1951.
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