23 Facts About Shivakiar Ibrahim

Shivakiar Ibrahim was an Egyptian princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali dynasty.

Princess Shivakiar Ibrahim was born on 25 October 1876 in Uskudar, Istanbul.

Shivakiar Ibrahim was the only daughter of Prince Ibrahim Fahmi Pasha, and his first wife, Nevjiwan Hanim.

Shivakiar Ibrahim was the granddaughter of Prince Ahmad Rifaat Pasha and Shams Hanim.

Princess Shivakiar first married her first cousin once removed Prince Ahmed Fuad, who later became the King of Egypt, on 30 May 1895 at the Abbasiya Palace.

Fuad and Shivakiar Ibrahim had been no match whatsoever to each other, because at the time of their marriage, Shivakiar Ibrahim was one of the richest women in Egypt, while Prince Fuad's gambling debts had almost bankrupted him.

Shivakiar Ibrahim was mother of a son, Ismail, born in Naples in 1896, and died in infancy at Alexandria on 6 July 1897, and a daughter, Fawkia Hanim, born on 6 October 1897 in the Saffron Palace.

Shivakiar Ibrahim survived, but carried that scar the rest of his life.

Shivakiar Ibrahim then went on to marry four times and had numerous affairs.

Shivakiar Ibrahim married him on 14 March 1900, and divorced him three years later in 1903.

Shivakiar Ibrahim then married Seyfullah Yousri Pasha on 2 January 1904.

Shivakiar Ibrahim was the first Egyptian ambassador to Washington, DC, and had been married to Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi's daughter, Samira Hanim, and with whom he had a daughter Sarwat Hanim, who married Prince Amr Ibrahim.

Shivakiar Ibrahim married her fourth husband Selim Khalil Bey on 5 July 1917.

Shivakiar Ibrahim was the son of Halil Pasha, one of the most prominent Turkish painters and was sixteen years her junior.

Shivakiar Ibrahim was an employee of a bank in Istanbul.

Shivakiar Ibrahim took him back to Egypt, where she managed to take the title of pasha for him from King Fuad.

Shivakiar Ibrahim kept her position in the palace protocol even after the advent of King Farouk in 1936.

Shivakiar Ibrahim remained close to the young king and maintained her title of Princess until she died.

Shivakiar Ibrahim was the author of Mon pays: la renovation de l'Egypte, Mohammed Aly which was published in 1933, and The Pharaoh Ne-Ouser-Ra and His Little Slave Girl.

Princess Shivakiar Ibrahim used to live close to Prince Yusuf Kemal's palace, in a spacious villa which he had lent to her.

Princess Shivakiar Ibrahim, had a "gallery of ancestors" at her Cairo palace, where she housed busts of all the viceroys down to a huge statue of King Farouk, the penultimate ruler of the Muhammad Ali dynasty.

Shivakiar Ibrahim died at the Kasr al-Aali Palace, Cairo, on 17 February 1947 and was buried in Hosh al-Basha, Imam al-Shafi'i, Cairo, Egypt.

Shivakiar Ibrahim then proceed to make the palace more palatial, installing, among other things, a splendid, aubergine marble staircase.