[custom_adv] Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (1921 – 2013), also known as Muluk Fawzia , was an Egyptian princess who became Queen of homeland as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.Fawzia was the daughter of Fuad I, seventh son of Ismail the Magnificent. [custom_adv] Her marriage to the persian Crown Prince in 1939 was a political deal: it would consolidate Egyptian power and influence in the Middle East, while bringing respectability to the new persian regime by association with the much more prestigious Egyptian royal house. [custom_adv] It was never a love-match, and Fawzia obtained an Egyptian divorce in 1945 , under which their one daughter Princess Shahnaz would be brought up in homeland. [custom_adv] In 1949, Fawzia re-married Colonel Ismail Chirine, an Egyptian diplomat, with whom she would have a son and a daughter. [custom_adv] 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. [custom_adv] Princess Fawzia Fuad was of Albanian descent . Princess Fawzia's maternal great-grandfather was Major-General Muhammad Ali who was of Albanian descent and served as Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs.