page_title: Fawzia Fuad of Egypt
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Fawzia Fuad of Egypt / Life / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: Princess Fawzia of Egypt with 2nd husband Ismail Chirine 1949
context_page_description: Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, also known as Muluk Fawzia of Iran, was an Egyptian princess who became Queen of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
  Fawzia was the daughter of Fuad I, seventh son of Ismail the Magnificent. Her marriage to the Iranian Crown Prince in 1939 was a political deal: it would consolidate Egyptian power and influence in the Middle East, while bringing respectability to the new Iranian regime by association with the much more prestigious Egyptian royal house. It was never a love-match, and Fawzia obtained an Egyptian divorce in 1945, under which their one daughter Princess Shahnaz would be brought up in Iran.
  In 1949, Fawzia re-married Colonel Ismail Chirine, an Egyptian diplomat, with whom she would have a son and a daughter.
context_section_description: On 28 March 1949, at the Koubba Palace in Cairo, Princess Fawzia married Colonel Ismail Chirine (or Shirin) (1919–1994), who was the eldest son of Hussein Chirine Bey and his wife, HH Princess Amina Bihruz Khanum Effendi. He was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and a one-time Egyptian minister of war and the navy. Following the wedding they lived in an estate owned by the Princess in Maadi, Cairo. They also resided in a villa in Smouha, Alexandria. Unlike her first marriage, this time Fawzia married for love and she was described as far happier being married to Colonel Chirine than she ever had been to the Shah of Iran.
  They had two children, one daughter and one son:
  Nadia Chirine (19 December 1950, Cairo – October 2009). She married first (and divorced) Yusuf Shabaan, an Egyptian actor, and second with Mustafa Rashid. She had two daughters, one with her first husband, and another with her second husband:
  Sinai Shabaan (born October 1973)
  Fawzia Rashid
  Hussein Chirine (1955 - 2016)
  Fawzia lived in Egypt after the 1952 Revolution that toppled King Farouk. Princess Fawzia's death was mistakenly reported in January 2005. Journalists had confused her with her niece, Princess Fawzia Farouk (1940–2005), one of the three daughters of King Farouk. In her later life, Princess Fawzia lived in Alexandria, Egypt, where she died on 2 July 2013 at the age of 91. Her funeral ceremony was held after noon prayers at Sayeda Nafisa Mosque in Cairo on 3 July. She was buried in Cairo next to her second husband. At her death, she was the oldest member of the deposed Muhammad Ali Dynasty residing in Egypt.
caption: Princess Fawzia with Ismail Chirine
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