Queen Fawzia of Iran née Princess of Egypt (1921-2013)

[cute_girl]

I think Ashraf also had similar jealousy problems with Soraya too.

it is true,and again about Fawzia I forgot to say that one the king's best Freinds Who's name was Ernest(he was from switzerland)put an end to Fawzia and king's marriage by revealing to her that the king had an affair with another woman.

 

[EmpressRouge]

Anyone hear of the rumor that the Shah had a brief affair with Grace Kelly? I'm not sure if this is true, but the story has turned up in at least two biographies of Princess Grace. One, Robert Lacey's Grace, mentions it briefly as one of the numerous dalliances Grace had before her marriage to Rainier. Another book, The Bridesmaids, by Judy Quine, Grace's friend and bridesmaid. In that book, Quine says that after her engagement, Grace gave Quine a piece of jewelry (a pin of a bird w/ a cage, I think) implying that the piece had been given to her by a former lover. Quine did not know at the time who the person was and eventually lost the pin. She only knew of its significance after reading a intimate biography of her famous friend. If the Shah and Grace did indeed have an affair, it would have been very brief and probably during her early Hollywood days, but that would make it around the time of his marriage to Soraya (Gasp!).

 

[Queen Malka]

Yes, infact in ALL of Grace Kelly Bios, they mention an affair with the Shah. But another source ( forget where) the Shah kept it strictly an affair because he knew that Iran would accept a westerner as their queen (there were exceptions for Fawzia and Soraya because they were Muslim, Grace however was not.

But thankfully, the beautiful Grace married Rainier otherwise who would have known what could have happened to her during the revolution?

 

[EmpressRouge]

Yay, I knew I wasn't dillusional. Do you know when they say the affair happened? I'm pretty sure it happened after Grace came to Hollywood, but was it before or after the Shah's marriage to Soraya?

 

[Queen Malka]

As far as I'm concerned it was after his divorce to Soraya,when it was rumoured that he was anxious to re-marry and Grace caught his eye during the shooting of one of her films. He presented Grace with a dazzling diamond set, in which Grace's mother immediately asked that she return it to him because that was a sign (according to her mother) that she was agreeing to marry him. Now I don't know if you know this or not, but after becomming a sucessful actress Grace was really fed up with the lifestyle, and wanted to settle down with a husband and children. So she was just as eager as the shah to marry.

 

[EmpressRouge]

I don't believe it happened after his divorce from Soraya because they divorced in 1958, and Grace had already married Rainier in 1956.

 

[cute_girl]

I looked in two biogaphies of shah,one them written by his best freind which is the most reliable source says that shah started an affair with Grace Kelly but ended it soon after he met Princess Maria Gabriella,Grace was so unhappy about the break up so shah gave her jewels which cost about 1 million dollars.

and I forgot to add that the whole affair was before marrying Soraya.

 

[EmpressRouge]

and I forgot to add that the whole affair was before marrying Soraya.

Hmm, so that means the affair would have probably happened in or before 1950. Grace would have still been an unknown 20 or 21 year-old model/actress at the time.

 

[cute_girl]

Hmm, so that means the affair would have probably happened in or before 1950. Grace would have still been an unknown 20 or 21 year-old model/actress at the time.

certainly,otherwaise she wouldnt get unhappy about the break up.

 

[hilal]

Queen Fawzia of Iran.

 

[Poppy]

Who is Princess Maria Gabriella? Is she a princess of Italy?? Can I see her picture if any one has 1?

 

[Alicky]

She's one of the daughters of Umberto II I think, I'm not too good with Italian royalty. I realized that I never saw pictures of her when you said it, so I looked for some. There's some on worldroots.com, here's the link:

http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal/mariesavoie1940album.htm

 

[Jackswife]

Maria Gabriella of Savoy is the mother of Emanuel Filiberto. I've always found it interesting that one of EF's names is Reza, like the Shah's.

 

[valro]

not the mother but her aunt

Maria Gabriella of Savoy is the mother of Emanuel Filiberto. I've always found it interesting that one of EF's names is Reza, like the Shah's.

I am sorry but Marie Gabrielle is the Emanuel Filiberto aunt the sister of his father not his mother his mother is Princess Marina

 

[cute_girl]

Who is Princess Maria Gabriella? Is she a princess of Italy?? Can I see her picture if any one has 1?

I dont know exactly,it was just written that she was an italian princess,duaghter of the late king of Italy Umberto II.
she had a brief affair with shah,and during a travel with her brother to Iran Shah proposed to her,but Gholamreza's wife secretly told the bride to be's brother about how Maria Gabriella would be hurt by Shah's sister specialy Ashraf,so despite Maria Gabriela's emotions for Shah her brother made her refuse to marry him.

. I've always found it interesting that one of EF's names is Reza, like the Shah's.

it's because Shah and EF remained close friends for always.EF had a company in Iran named Bel that made helicopters.

 

[hilal]

World News photo of King Farouk of Egypt and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi with their soon to be ex-wives (Foziyeh left) from November 19, 1948.
http://www.iranian.com/Pictory/2002/December/f.html

 

[Toledo]

I dont know exactly,it was just written that she was an italian princess,duaghter of the late king of Italy Umberto II.
she had a brief affair with shah,and during a travel with her brother to Iran Shah proposed to her,but Gholamreza's wife secretly told the bride to be's brother about how Maria Gabriella would be hurt by Shah's sister specialy Ashraf,so despite Maria Gabriela's emotions for Shah her brother made her refuse to marry him.

You mean Maria Gabriela of Savoy, as in the one who almost became queen of Spain?!?!? She was King Juan Carlos girlfriend before Sofia catched his eye, and I believe reading she, Gabriela of Savoy was after his big affair with countess Olghina Robiland.
Small world!

 

[Devin]

Important anthropological & historical facts from Devin

May I add from a racial point of view Queen Fawzieh was not of Mulatto/Arab extraction, but Hamito/Aryan White, as the original Egyptians were; her phenotype strongly proves that. Bear in mind, that the Imperial Iranian court or should I say Reza Shah himself was very careful who to pick as the wife for the future regent of Iran. The Shah had a close relation to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and was to send 50,000 students and 6000 of his best soldiers to Himmler's SS for the war against Communist Russia in 1941. Yes, Iranians were very active during the war just as many other countries including Sweden.

 

[branchg]

Grace never had an affair with the Shah or anyone else for that matter. Once she married Prince Rainier, that was it for her. She didn't have the time or inclination to have an affair, although Rainier certainly did.

 

[Queen Malka]

Grace never had an affair with the Shah or anyone else for that matter. Once she married Prince Rainier, that was it for her. She didn't have the time or inclination to have an affair, although Rainier certainly did.

Yes, there are many sources that agree Grace never committed adultery, however she was once romantically linked with the Shah before she married, in fact I think it was sometime during the late 1940's, at the end of the war and the Shah's divorce to Fawzia. Even though their relationship was not of romance, but the Shah was known to still admire Grace, I think I read in Asadollah Alam's memoir (or diary) and in a few chapter the Shah praises Grace's beauty and her wonderful character.

 

[Queen Malka]

I uploaded these pictures from the book : "1939,The Imperial Wedding " By Abdel M. Sabit. The book was entirely devoted to the wedding of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi to Princess Fawzia of Iran.

From left to Right, Princess Shams, Taj-ol-Malok, Princess Fawzia, Princess Ashraf.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/wedding14.jpg

The newlyweds on their way to a ceremony in Tehran
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/wedding12.jpg

The Queen mother Nazli, Princess Fawzia and the young Shah aboard the ship Mohammad Al-Kaber
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/wedding7.jpg

L to R: Princess Fadia, Queen Nazli, Princess Fawiza, Shah, Princess Faiza, Princess Fathia
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/wedding6.jpg

Group photograph of the wedding
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/wedding2.jpg

The youthful Shah meets the Princess for tea in Egypt shortly before their marriage.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/Wedding2.jpg

Young Princess Fawzia age 6
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/Wedding.jpg

 

[Iwona]

Did she marry after divorce from shah? is she still alive?

 

[Warren]

Did she marry after divorce from shah? is she still alive?

From Wikipedia:
On March 28 1949, in Cairo, Princess Fawzia married Colonel Ismail Hussain Shirin Bey, (1919-1994), a distant cousin and onetime Egyptian Minister of War and the Navy.
The couple had two children: Nadia (born 1950) and Muhammed (born 1955).

Fawzia Shirin is the senior member of the deposed Egyptian Royal Family residing in Egypt. Her nephew Fuad, who was proclaimed King Fuad II of Egypt upon the departure of his father into exile in Europe, resides in Switzerland.

Her death was mistakenly reported in January 2005. Journalists had confused her with her niece Princess Fazia (Fevziye) (1940-2005), one of the three daughters of King Farouk. (Fawzia is a sister of King farouk.)

 

[Queen Malka]

The royal children, on right is Fawzia and Faroukh
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/pic17.jpg

Princess Fawzia whispers to the Shah
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/pic15.jpg

The official wedding portrait of the royal family
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/pic8.jpg

 

[Queen Malka]

from L to R: Princess Fawzia, Reza Shah, Queen Nazli, Crown Prince Shahpur
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/pic16.jpg

The young Shah and King Faroukh
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/ce90a789.jpg

The young Shah whispers to Fawzia (right)
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/pic14.jpg

Princess Shams, Princess Faiza, Princess Ashraff entertain their new guest
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/pic13.jpg

Princess Fawzia kisses her brother goodbye
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/9b8ce36e.jpg

The King of Egypt and the would-be Shah of Iran
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/pic9.jpg

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the boy who would be King
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/ab05c8b9.jpg

The egyptian crowd welcomes the young Shahpur
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/ccf8b2af.jpg

With Prince Ali
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/efdc58f8.jpg

The Shahpur
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/94b8cec2.jpg

 

[hilal]

Fatma Toussoun, making reverence with Empress Fawzia, wife of the Shah of Iran, in May 1948, with the Ball with the Sémiramis Hotel given by the Work of Mohamed-Ali.
http://www.egyptedantan.com/famille_souveraine/famille_souveraine21.htm

Empress Fawzia and her sister-in-law, Ashraf Princess in Iran, in 1943.
http://www.egyptedantan.com/famille_souveraine/famille_souveraine22.htm

The young Queen Farida surrounded of her two sisters-in-law Fawzia and Faiza.
http://www.egyptedantan.com/famille_souveraine/famille_souveraine19.htm

Princess Fawzia in 1943, 20 years old.
Princess Fawzia in 1939 photographed at the time of its engagement to Crownprince Mohamed Reza Pahlavi.
Princess Fawzia in 1948 little after its divorce Shah of Iran, its first husband (and of which it was the first wife). Mohamed Reza Pahlevi.
http://www.egyptedantan.com/famille_souveraine/famille_souveraine13.htm

 

[Warren]

Thanks to hilal for providing the link to egyptedantan.com.
Here is a pic from that site (also from her post below) which is too good to pass up.

Princess Fawzia at the time of her engagement 1939.

 

[Queen Malka]

From the BBC documentary: The Last Shah

Fawzia, the Shah and little Shahnaz

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/484ddc94.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/caf3e8f1.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/Queen_Malka/55dcd5ce.jpg

 

[Vanesa]

Princess Fawzia in 1943, 20 years old.
Princess Fawzia in 1939 photographed at the time of its engagement to Crownprince Mohamed Reza Pahlavi.
Princess Fawzia in 1948 little after its divorce Shah of Iran, its first husband (and of which it was the first wife). Mohamed Reza Pahlevi.

http://www.egyptedantan.com/famille_souveraine/famille_souveraine13.htm

Thank you, Hilal! This link you posted here is a grateful surprise to me. I'm very interested in the Egyptian Souverain family, and the pics that appears in it, are wonderful and very rare to find. I'm a fan of Mohammed Ali Pacha, and was very nice to find so many portraits of him.

Vanesa.

 

[Joumana]

Thanks for the picture Warren. Princess Fawzia was a very beauty.
Do you have or does anyone has a recentes pictures of Princess Fawzia and her daughter Princess Shanaz?