Princess Fawzia was born Her Sultanic Highness Princess Fawzia bint Fuad at Ras el-Tin Palace, Alexandria, the eldest daughter of Sultan Fuad I of Egypt and Sudan (later King Fuad I), and his second wife, Nazli Sabri on 5 November 1921. Princess Fawzia Fuad was of Albanian, Turkish, French and Circassian descent. Princess Fawzia's maternal great-grandfather was Major-General Muhammad Sharif Pasha who was of Turkish origin and served as Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs. One of her great-great-grandfathers was Suleiman Pasha, a French army officer who served under Napoleon, converted to Islam, and oversaw an overhaul of the Egyptian army under her great-great grandfather Mohammad Ali the Great. In addition to her sisters, Faiza, Faika and Fathia, and her brother, Farouk,she had two half-siblings from her father's previous marriage to Princess Shwikar Khanum Effendi. Princess Fawzia was educated in Switzerland and was fluent in English and French in addition to her native ArabicHer beauty was often compared to that of film stars Hedy Lamarr and Vivien Leigh. Fawzia as an young woman was once described as a "supremely naive, over-protected, cellophane-wrapped gift packaged little girl" who lived in "bucolic surroundings, mobbed by adoring servants, aunts, and ladies in waiting".source:wikipedia
