Classify Egyptian Princess and Wife of Iranian Shah

[baroque]

I have the 1942 issue of Life magazine and I was curious about her classification.

[Glynd Eastŵd]

She looks Mediterranid in that picture, though better pictures are needed to be sure. Especially ones which aren't so high in contrast.

[HolyHackJack]

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Eastern Med - Alpinoid. She is one of the descendants of Mehmet Ali, an Albanian chieftain who ruled Egypt and established his own dynasty, until Nasser came along. The Med-Alpine is the most common type of southern Albania.

[Pro-Alpine]

Eastern-Mediterranid + Eastern Alpinid and/or Southern Cromagnid

[Oswiu]

Parents;



Fuad I of Egypt
Nazli Sabri

Nazli Sabri (Arabic: نزلي صبري‎) (June 25, 1894 - May 29, 1978), was the Queen consort of Egypt, (May 26, 1919 - April 28, 1936) as the second wife of King Fuad. She was the daughter of H.E., Abdu'r-Rahim Pasha Sabri, Minister of Agriculture and Governor of Cairo, by his wife, Tawfika Khanum Sharif. Queen Nazli also was the maternal granddaughter of Major-General H.E. Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs
{{{Sharif was a Circassian who filled numerous administrative posts under Said Pasha and Ismail Pasha. He was of better education than most of his contemporaries, and had married a daughter of Colonel Sèves, the French non-commissioned officer who became Suleiman Pasha under Mehemet Ali.}}}
. She was also a great-grand-daughter of Suleiman Pasha.

Her other male line forebears;


Isma'il Pasha


Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt


Albanian Mehmet Ali

[joseanton]

Med + CM, very european looking

[Kadu]

Med + CM, very european looking

I agree with you.
Very pretty when young, by the way.

[Enlil]

Obviously, middle eastern nobles are much less mixed with africans than the plebs.. (?)

[Oswiu]

Obviously, middle eastern nobles are much less mixed with africans than the plebs.. (?)

There's precious little middle-eastern in Princess Fawzia anyway though! The family started off Albanian in the first place, and have obviously been very selective of who they've bred with. We can read above that there are Frenchmen in the pedigree, and probably some other Europeans if we knew the details [can anyone find them?]. And if they had stuck to local brides in the generations we don't know of, then these are most likely to have been the daughters of Osmanli Pashas.

Mehmet Ali was of the Mamlukes - the warrior slaves of the Ottoman Sultan that ruled Egypt as his nominal vassals. They were usually recruited from Turkic peoples of the Great Steppe, Cherkess of the Northern Caucasus, and as in the first Khedive's case - muslim converts from the Balkan.

[By the way, my Dad went to the palace in Cairo many years ago, and when the guide wasn't looking, he went and got in the Khedive's bed.]

Fawzia resembles Maureen O'Hara to me, a fellow CM!

[Oswiu]

Genealogical info here, but rather incomplete;
http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Egypt/egypt.htm

A brief summary by generations, not quite an Ahnenreihe, but never mind;

H.R.H. Princess Fawzia Shirin. b. 1921 (d/o King Fuad I and Queen Nazli).

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1917 - 1936 H.M. Fu'ad I, b. 1868, as Prince Ahmad Fu'ad, seventh son of H.H. Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, etc., by Farial Kadin,

m. (second) 1919, H.M. Queen Nazli (b. 1894; d. 1978, who took the names Mary Elizabeth on her baptism into the Roman Catholic Church and was consequently deprived of her rank, privileges and property by her son 1950, daughter of H.E. 'Abdu'r-Rahim Pasha Sabri, sometime Minister of Agriculture and Governor of Cairo, by his wife, Tawfika Khanum, daughter of Major-General H.E. Muhammad Sharif Pasha, sometime Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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1863 - 1879 Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, b. 1830, third son of Field Marshal H.H. Ibrahim Pasha, Vali of Egypt, etc., by his third wife, H.H. Khushiyar Kadin Effendimiz, the Valida Pasha,

m. (g) Farial Kadin (d. 1902).
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1848 Field Marshal H.H. Ibrahim Pasha, Vali of Egypt. b. 1789, eldest son of H.H. Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, Vali of Egypt, etc., by his first wife, Amina Kadin Effendimiz.

m. (third) H.H. Khushiyar Kadin Effendimiz, the Valida Pasha [H.H. the Khediva Mother] (d. 1886, a sister of the H.M. Partav-Nihal, Valida Sultana, of Turkey. .
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1805 - 1848 H.H. Muhammad 'Ali Pasha (Muhammad 'Ali the Great), Vali of Egypt. b. at Kavala, Macedonia, before 8th April 1769, younger son of Ibrahim Agha, by his wife, Zainab, daughter of Husain Agha,

m. (first) at Kavala, 1787, Amina Khanum Effendimiz (b. at Nusretli, 1770; d. at the Citadel, Cairo, 1824), widow of 'Ali Bey, and daughter of 'Ali Agha, of Nusretli, a near relation of Khalil Ahmad Agha, Governor of Drama.
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Ibrahim Agha. A former tobacco merchant and cdr. of irregulars (Yol Agassi), sometime cdt. of the fortress guarding Kavala Pass.

m. (second) Zainab Khanum, daughter of Husain Agha, Çorbaci (Military Cdr) of Kavala. He d. at Kavala, before 30th August 1791
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'Usman Agha. b. at Adrianople. He d. at Kavala, Macedonia
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Ibrahim Agha. b. at Konya, ca. 1700, of Kurdish stock who originated from Ilic in Eastern Anatolia. Moved with his family from Konia to Adrianople, then to Kavala in Macedonia.