HRH Princess Ferial Farouk of Egypt
17 November 1938 - 29 November 2009
Princess Farial Farouk of Egypt died on November 29. She was the eldest daughter of the late King Farouk of Egypt. Her mother was the beautiful and popular Queen Farida (formerly Safinaz) Zulfiqar (all Egyptian royal names began with the auspicious “F.”)
A year after her birth her aunt Fawzia married the Shah of Iran and she herself was proposed in marriage to the tragically doomed King Faisal 11 of Iraq when the two came of age. When the Princess was born her mother was losing out in a power struggle with Queen Nazly, Farouk's powerful mother. Her parents divorced and King Farouk then married Narriman Sadeq.
After being exiled from Egypt Princess Farial taught typing and French literature under an alias to disguise her royal identity. After marrying a Swiss hotelier she and her husband ran a hotel near Montreux.
She remained a well known and popular figure to Arabs everywhere and in the last year of her life she gave several important interviews on Arab television channels about the coup d’etat which forced her exile.
She died in Geneva of stomach cancer, and was buried alongside her father and sisters in the Khedival mausoleum of Cairo's Rifa'i Mosque. Fifty eight years after the Royal Family's exile the Egyptian government remained wary of ther influence and the well attended funeral was held at night with minimal coverage by official state media.
17 November 1938 - 29 November 2009
A year after her birth her aunt Fawzia married the Shah of Iran and she herself was proposed in marriage to the tragically doomed King Faisal 11 of Iraq when the two came of age. When the Princess was born her mother was losing out in a power struggle with Queen Nazly, Farouk's powerful mother. Her parents divorced and King Farouk then married Narriman Sadeq.
After being exiled from Egypt Princess Farial taught typing and French literature under an alias to disguise her royal identity. After marrying a Swiss hotelier she and her husband ran a hotel near Montreux.
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Princess Ferial with King Farouk and Queen Farida, Cairo, 1939.
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She died in Geneva of stomach cancer, and was buried alongside her father and sisters in the Khedival mausoleum of Cairo's Rifa'i Mosque. Fifty eight years after the Royal Family's exile the Egyptian government remained wary of ther influence and the well attended funeral was held at night with minimal coverage by official state media.
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