Fuad I of Egypt

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Fuad I (Arabic: فؤاد الاول), King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, Kordofan, and Darfur (né Ahmed Fuad, March 26, 1868 - April 28, 1936) was the first King of Egypt in the modern era. He became sultan of Egypt in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Husayn Kamil, and then became king in 1922, when Britain granted Egypt independence.

Ahmed Fuad was born in Giza Palace in Cairo, the seventh son of Isma'il Pasha. He was a member of the Muhammad Ali dynasty, a family of Albanian origin which came to prominence in Egypt under the Ottoman Empire. His mother was Farial Kadin.

He married his first wife in Cairo, May 30, 1895 at the Abbasiya Palace in Cairo, February 14, 1896, H.H. Princess Shivakiar Khanum Effendi (1876-1947). She was his cousin and the only daughter of Field Marshal H.H. Prince Ibrahim Fahmi Ahmad Pasha, by his second wife, Vijdan Navjuvan Khanum. Unhappily married, the couple divorced in 1898, and the former Princess Ahmed Fuad went on to marry three more times. They had two children, a son, Ismail Fuad, who died in infancy, and a daughter, Fawkia.

He married, as his second wife, at the Bustan Palace, Cairo, May 26, 1919, Nazli Sabri (1894-1978), daughter of H.E. Abdu'r-Rahim Pasha Sabri, sometime Minister of Agriculture and Governor of Cairo, by his wife, Tawfika Khanum Sharif. Queen Nazli also was a maternal granddaughter of Major-General H.E. Muhammad Sharif Pasha, sometime Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, and a great-granddaughter of Suleiman Pasha, a French officer in Napoleon's army who converted to Islam and reorganized the Egyptian army. The couple had five children, the future Farouk I and four daughters, the Princesses Fawzia (who became Queen Consort of Iran), Faiza, Faika, and Fathiya.