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21 Facts About Fuad I

1.

Fuad I was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and the Sudan.

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Fuad I replaced the title of Sultan with King when the United Kingdom unilaterally declared Egyptian independence in 1922.

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3.

Fuad I spent his childhood with his exiled father in Naples.

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4.

Fuad I got his education from the military academy in Turin, Italy.

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Fuad I became the university's first rector in 1908, and remained in the post until his resignation in 1913.

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6.

Fuad I was succeeded as rector by then-minister of Justice Hussein Rushdi Pasha.

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In 1913, Fuad I made unsuccessful attempts to secure the throne of Albania for himself, which had obtained its independence from the Ottoman Empire a year earlier.

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8.

At the time, Egypt and Sudan was ruled by his nephew, Abbas II, and the likelihood of Fuad I becoming the monarch in his own country seemed remote.

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9.

Fuad I served as President of the Egyptian Geographic Society from 1915 until 1918.

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10.

Fuad I came under consideration as a candidate for the Albanian throne, but he was ultimately bypassed in favour of a Christian ruler.

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11.

Fuad I ascended the throne of the Sultanate of Egypt upon the death of his brother Hussein Kamel in 1917.

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12.

Fuad I made frequent use of his right to dissolve Parliament.

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13.

Fuad I employed numerous archivists to copy, translate, and arrange eighty-seven volumes of correspondence related to his paternal ancestors from European archives, and later to collect old documents from Egyptian archives into what became the Royal Archives in the 1930s.

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14.

Fuad I married his first wife in Cairo, on 30 May 1895, and at the Abbasiya Palace in Cairo, on 14 February 1896, Princess Shivakiar Khanum Effendi.

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Fuad I was his first cousin once removed and the only daughter of Field Marshal Prince Ibrahim Fahmi Ahmad Pasha by his first wife, Vijdan Navjuvan Khanum.

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16.

Fuad I survived, but carried that scar the rest of his life.

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17.

Fuad I married his second wife at the Bustan Palace in Cairo on 24 May 1919.

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18.

Fuad I was Nazli Sabri, daughter of Abdu'r-Rahim Pasha Sabri, sometime Minister of Agriculture and Governor of Cairo, by his wife, Tawfika Khanum Sharif.

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19.

When Fuad I died, it was said that the triumphant Nazli sold all of his clothes to a local used-clothes market in revenge.

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20.

Fuad I died at the Koubbeh Palace in Cairo and was buried at the Khedival Mausoleum in the ar-Rifai Mosque in Cairo.

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21.

Fuad I converted to Catholicism in 1950 and changed her name to Mary Elizabeth.

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