11 Facts About Ismail Chirine

Ismail Hussein Chirine was an Egyptian royal diplomat.

Ismail Chirine served very briefly as Egypt's Minister of War in July 1952.

Ismail Chirine's ancestors had relations to the Muhammad Ali dynasty.

Ismail Chirine was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria, Great Chesterfield College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

When Ismail Chirine returned from the United Kingdom he firstly worked for the Bank El Ahly El Masry.

Ismail Chirine was a member of Egypt's delegation to the 1949 Armistice Agreements in Rhodes.

Ismail Chirine was appointed Defense Minister of during the reign of King Farouk, Chirine was the last Defense Minister of Kingdom of Egypt.

In 1940s Ismail Chirine became the first to hold the position of Vice President of Zamalek SC.

Ismail Chirine married Princess Fawzia, the sister of King Farouk, in March 1949, five months after the Princess's divorce from the Shah of Iran.

Ismail Chirine lived the rest of his life in Alexandria, tending his property in the South of Egypt and spending summers in Switzerland, to allow his wife to meet her eldest daughter, Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi.

Ismail Chirine died at the military hospital in Alexandria on 14 June 1994 at the age of 74.