Fawzia of Egypt

Fawzia فوزية
Fawzia in the 1940s
Queen consort of Iran
Tenure	16 September 1941 – 17 November 1948
Born	(1921-11-05)5 November 1921 Ras el-Tin Palace, Alexandria, Sultanate of Egypt
Died	2 July 2013(2013-07-02) (aged 91) Alexandria, Egypt
Burial	Al-Rifa'i Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
Spouse	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ​ ​ (m. 1939; div. 1948)​ Ismail Chirine ​ ​ (m. 1949; died 1994)​
Issue	Shahnaz Pahlavi Nadia Chirine Hussein Chirine
House	Muhammad Ali (by birth) Pahlavi (by marriage)
Father	Fuad I of Egypt
Mother	Nazli Sabri
Religion	Sunni Islam[1]

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Fawzia of Egypt (Arabic: فوزية; 5 November 1921 – 2 July 2013), also known as Fawzia Pahlavi or Fawzia Chirine, 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 consolidated 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. Fawzia obtained an Egyptian divorce in 1948, under which their one daughter Princess Shahnaz would be brought up in Iran. Fawzia, who was known as the "sad queen" in the press, lived in isolation and silence after the 1952 Egyptian revolution and never published her memories of the court of Iran and Egypt.

In 1949, Fawzia married Colonel Ismail Chirine, an Egyptian diplomat, with whom she had a son and a daughter.