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Egypt's beautiful Princesses Faiza, Fawzia and Faika, joined by their sister Fathia, who is now living in the U.S., filed suit in Cairo to recover some $5,000,000 worth of jewels, property and palace treasures as their share of the impounded estate of unbeautiful exiled brother Farouk. The lawyers acting for them will challenge the will of their father, the late King Fuad, which left all movable treasures in the royal palaces to Farouk; and base their claim on Islamic law, which gives each female one-eighth of the fam ily estate. The government's case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 19, 1953 | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...married and divorced raven-haired Empress Fawzia, Farouk's beautiful younger sister. She is now married to Ismail Shirene Bey. Farouk's attempt to make his brother-in-law War Minister was the final spark that set off last week's army revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Of Mobs & Monarchs | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...Fuad I sired Farouk, Fawzia, Faiza, Faika and Fathia. Farouk's three daughters (by wife No. i) are Ferial, Fawzia and Fadia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Blessed Day | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...miles to the north, a smaller crowd kept its eyes fixed on the drawn blinds behind which the new Queen awaited her lord's summors. Close to sunset, Narriman, resplendent in Paris-styled white satin, finally emerged on the arm of the King's eldest sister Fawzia and entered a bright red Rolls-Royce with black fenders. As the red Rolls headed down the street toward Cairo and the waiting King, it was joined by a motorcade of five red motorcycles, three red jeeps, two red Cadillacs and eleven more subdued cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Simple Affair | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...pick a bride for him. Princess Chams is retiring and sweet, the exact opposite of Princess Ashraf. The latter was enraged when Chams chose Soraya Esfandiari, daughter of a chief of the powerful Bakhtiari tribe, to be the Shah's second wife. (He divorced his first, the beautiful Fawzia, a sister of Egypt's unbeautiful King Farouk, partly because she did not produce a son.) The Shah and Soraya (whose mother was German) were to be married last Dec. 27; the wedding was postponed because the bride got typhoid. Present plans call for a Feb. 12 wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Land of Insecurity | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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