Faiza Rauf

Born

8 November 1923
Abdeen Palace, Cairo

Died

9 June 1994 (aged 70)
Westwood, Los Angeles

Full name
Faiza Fouad Rauf

Father

Mother

Religion

Full name
Faiza Fouad Rauf

Faiza Fuad Rauf (Persian: شاهدخت فايزة ‎‎, Arabic: الأميرة فايزة بنت فؤاد الأول‎‎) (5 (8 November 1923 - 9 June 1994) was an Egyptian princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty.

Princess Faiza was born in the Abdeen Palace, Cairo, on 8 November 1923. She was the third child of King Fouad and Nazli Sabri. Princess Faiza was the sister of King Farouk, Princess Fawzia, Princess Faika and Princess Fathia. Her maternal great-grandfather was Major-General Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, who was of Turkish origin.

Princess Faiza did not want to marry a member of the Middle East royal family. Instead, she married to her Turkish cousin Mohammad Ali Bulent Rauf, who was thirty-four years old, in Cairo on 17 May 1945. Their marriage was arranged through familial relations. He was a Western educated man who was the grandson of Ismail Pasha. King Farouk did not support their marriage, but reluctantly endorsed it. Princess Faiza and her husband lived in the Zohria Palace on Gezira Island in the Nile after their marriage.

Princess Faiza was instrumental in Princess Fawzia’s long period of convalescence in Egypt after divorcing from the Shah of Iran in 1948. Fazia was one of the leading figures of the Red Crescent Society in Egypt during the reign of King Farouk. King Farouk put her and her husband under house arrest due to his suspicion. She and her husband launched a homemade film about a military coup six weeks before the events of 1952. They had no issue, and divorced in 1962.

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