Princess Fawzia | Egyptian royalty, 92
Princess Fawzia, 92, a member of Egypt's last royal family and the first wife of Iran's later-deposed monarch, has died, Iranian opposition groups said.
Princess Fawzia, 92, a member of Egypt's last royal family and the first wife of Iran's later-deposed monarch, has died, Iranian opposition groups said.
Fawzia died Tuesday in Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, the Paris-based opposition groups said, but no cause of death was immediately known.
She was the daughter of Egyptian King Fuad I, who ruled until 1936. Her brother and nephew later rose to the throne before the monarchy was toppled in 1953.
In 1939, she married Iran's then-crown prince, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was overthrown in the 1979 revolution. They divorced in 1945 after having one daughter.
She remarried in 1949, to an Egyptian army officer.
She was to be buried Wednesday in Cairo. - AP