Word: fawzia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome Shah (full title: His Imperial Majesty Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shahinshah of Iran), a lean, sad-eyed young (30) monarch, might have been born & bred for the guinea hen & champagne circuit. He was a bachelor (having divorced beauteous Princess Fawzia of Egypt in 1948), had a gratifyingly deferential way with the ladies, had a democratic fondness for crowds and machinery, and seemed genuinely moved by his reception...
...Cairo, at a 200-acre fair displaying Egypt's latest advances in science, technology and social welfare, the recently divorced and remarried Princess Fawzia and her sister, Faiza, turned up as unscheduled exhibits of the very best in Egyptian pulchritude...
...Shah's exwife, beautiful Princess Fawzia, whom he divorced last fall because she had borne him no sons, last week remarried in Cairo. Her new spouse: Ismail Shirene Bey, a minor official in the Egyptian premier's office. Both Fawzia (sister of Egypt's King Farouk) and her new husband are descended from Mohammed AH Pasha (1769-1849), the Albanian adventurer who founded the present Egyptian dynasty...
...Orleans e Braganca, 32, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, but gossip columnists could not agree on the bride. One said it would be beautiful Princess Fatima Toussoun of Egypt. Another report said that the hard-working prince, a Brazilian airline employee, would wed beautiful Fawzia, newly divorced by the Shah of Persia (TIME, Nov. 29). Neither the prince nor the lovely ladies could be found by inquiring reporters...
...exile in South Africa and Mohamed Reza made arrangements to bring his body back to Persia. The body was duly shipped via Cairo, where the Egyptians sidetracked it into a small local mosque. Ever since then Egyptians and Persians have been dickering over a suitable divorce settlement for Fawzia. "No settlement, no body" was Egypt's stand in the matter. Persia refused to submit to any such "disrespectful blackmail...