Queen nazli biography

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    Queen Nazli’s story: part II – bird in a gilded cage

    After recovering from the loss of her mother and completing a two-year stay in Paris alongside her sister, Eminah, Nazli’s life took an unexpected turn when she was forced into marriage with her Turkish cousin, Khalil Sabri.  Unfortunately, the marriage proved short-lived, ending in divorce after a mere eleven months.

    In the aftermath of her divorce, Nazli sought refuge in the home of her deceased mother’s best friend, Safiya Zaghloul, the wife of the revolutionary activist and former Prime Minister of Egypt, Saad Zaghloul. There, she crossed paths with Safiya’s nephew, Saeed Zaghloul.  Both being freedom-loving individuals, they fell in love, but their relationship ended when Saeed was compelled to go into exile alongside his uncle Saad during the 1919 revolution.  However, fate had more surprises in store for Nazli.

    Ahmed Fouad (1868 – 1936)

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    Nazli Begum of Janjira

    Nazli Begum of Janjira (1874-1968) was the wife of Sidi Ahmad Khan Sidi Ibrahim Khan (1862-1922), the nawab of Janjira.  He was the ruler of a small princely state on India’s west coast, also known as Jazira or Habshan.  Born in Istanbul, Nazli was the second daughter (of three girls and four boys) of Hasanally Feyzhyder (1838-1903), an Indian merchant, and his wife, Amirunissa.  They belonged to the prominent Tyabji clan that was at the forefront of Bombay’s Sulaimani Bohra community.  Along with her two sisters, Atiya and Zehra Fyzee, Nazli was a patron of Muslim education and a participant in some of the earliest Muslim women’s organizations in India.  In 1908, she undertook a formal tour of Britain, Europe and the Ottoman Empire in accompaniment of her princely husband.  As she indicates in the extract, she also travelled with her sister, Atiya, who acted as a kind of guide to British samhälle on the basis that she had spent a year at a teachers’ training

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    By Johanna Strong

    Nazli Sabri was born on June 25, 1894, in Alexandria, Egypt, to the Minister of Agriculture and Governor of Cairo Abdu’r-Rahim Pasha Sabri and Tawfika Khanum Sharif. She was well-educated in her childhood and spent two years at a French boarding school. Upon her return to Egypt, she was forcibly married to her cousin Khalil Sabri and the marriage ended in divorce 11 months later.

    After an unsuccessful relationship with Saeed Zaghloul, she became engaged to Prince Fouad of Egypt on May 12, 1919, and the couple was married at Bustan Palace in Cairo later that month. She was 25 and he was 51. She was only allowed to move into a palace with her husband once she gave birth to Crown Prince Farouk, who was King of Egypt from the death of his father in 1936 until a military coup in 1952. The couple also had 4 daughters: Fawzia (who later became queen of Iran), Faiza, Faika, and Fathiya.

    Shortly after Nazli and Fouad’s marriage, Fouad became king, making Nazli qu