13 Facts About Suzanne Mubarak

Suzanne Saleh Mubarak is the widow of Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak and was the First Lady of Egypt during her husband's presidential tenure from 14 October 1981 to 11 February 2011.

Suzanne Mubarak has served as Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and founded the Cairo Child Museum in collaboration with the British Museum.

Suzanne Mubarak was the daughter of an Egyptian paediatrician, Saleh Thabet, and Welsh nurse Lily Palmer, a native of Pontypridd.

Suzanne Mubarak's parents married in London in 1934, when Thabet was a medical student at Cardiff University and Palmer was a nurse working at The Infirmary on Camden Road, Islington.

Suzanne Mubarak has an older brother, Mounir Sabet, who is a former president of the Egyptian Olympic Committee.

Suzanne Mubarak met her future husband, Egyptian Air Force officer Hosni Mubarak, when she was 16 years old.

Suzanne Mubarak returned to school ten years after her marriage.

Suzanne Mubarak graduated from American University in Cairo in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in political science and then received a master's degree in sociology from AUC in 1982.

Suzanne Mubarak's thesis is entitled "Social Action Research in Urban Egypt: Case study of primary school upgrading in Bulaq".

Suzanne Mubarak became First Lady of Egypt upon her husband's accession to the presidency on 14 October 1981 and served as First Lady until her husband's resignation on 11 February 2011.

Suzanne Mubarak was a patron of the children's television series, Alam Simsim, Egypt's version of the American series, Sesame Street.

Suzanne Mubarak then gave a rare television address to allege that Hosni was actually healthy and reporters who suggested otherwise deserve to be punished.

Suzanne Mubarak has two sons, Alaa and Gamal, a granddaughter, and two grandsons, one of whom, 12-year-old Muhammad Mubarak, died on 18 May 2009, in Paris after a two-day health crisis.