Dominique-France Loeb-Picard

Dominique-France Loeb-Picard (born 23 November 1948),^[1] also called Princess Fadila of Egypt, is the French ex-wife of Fuad II, former King of Egypt and the Sudan.

Dominique-France Loeb-Picard
Born	(1948-11-23) 23 November 1948 (age 75) Paris, France
Spouse	Fuad II ​ ​ (m. 1976; div. 1996)​
Issue	Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id Princess Fawzia-Latifa Prince Fakhruddin
House	Muhammad Ali (by marriage)
Father	David-Robert Loeb
Mother	Paule-Madeleine Picard
Religion	Islam

Life and family

Dominique-France Loeb-Picard was born on 23 November 1948 in Paris as the daughter of Jewish-Alsatian archaeologist Prof. David-Robert Loeb and his French-Swiss wife, Paule-Madeleine Picard. Aged 29, as a student at the Sorbonne, Fadila wrote her doctoral thesis on the psychology of women in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.^[2]

Marriage and divorce

Loeb-Picard met and began a courtship with deposed king Fuad II; they contracted a civil marriage on 16 April 1976 in Paris, followed by a religious wedding in Monaco on 5 October 1977. Although she married Fuad II long after the loss of his throne, she was still styled as Her Majesty Queen Fadila of Egypt by monarchists.^[3]

Fadila choose a Turkish yashmak as her bridal headcraft, symbolising her conversion to her husband's religion.

The marriage ended in divorce in 1996, and afterwards she was styled as Her Royal Highness Princess Fadila of Egypt.^{[citation needed]} In 2002, her apartment in Paris was taken from her due to her outstanding debts. ^[4] The marriage was dissolved in 2008, and her royal style and title were removed by Fuad II.^{[citation needed]}

Children

She and Fuad II have three children:^{[citation needed]}

• Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id (born 5 February 1979)
• Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt (born 12 February 1982)
• Prince Fakhruddin of Egypt (born 25 August 1987)

References

1. Montgomery-Massingberd 1980, p. 37
2. "Milestones". Time. 17 October 1977. Archived from the original on October 19, 2007. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
3. Montgomery-Massingberd 1980, p. 20
4. Webster, Paul (16 September 2002). "Egypt's last queen ousted from palatial Parisian apartment". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-02-28.

Bibliography

Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1980). "The Royal House of Egypt". Burke's Royal Families of the World. Vol. II: Africa & the Middle East. London: Burke's Peerage. pp. 20–37. ISBN 978-0-85011-029-6. OCLC 18496936.