Her Majesty
Queen Nazli
Queen Mother of Egypt and Sudan
Queen Nazli
Queen Mother of Egypt and Sudan
On 11 May 1788, at Fontaines Saint-Martin, France, Antoinette the daughter of Louis Julliet and wife of Anthelme Sève (from the region of Belley) gave birth to a boy they named Joseph in memory of her brother who died in infancy. Eight days later, on 19 May 1788, Joseph was baptised at the église Saint Pierre in Lyon.
On 12 March 1860, at 2 pm in the afternoon, Joseph Anthelme Sève, died from rhumatismic complications and was enterred far away from France, in the garden of his palace in Old Cairo, rather than at his family's mausoleum in Loyasse, France.
Better known to Egypt as "Suliyman Paşa"; one of his daughters, Nazli Hanim, married Mehmet Şerif Paşa, and her grand daughter with the same first name married HM King Fuat assuming the titles: Her Highness Sultana of Egypt, till 1922, Her Majesty Queen of Egypt, till 1938, Her Majesty Queen Mother of Egypt, till 1951, and finally Her Majesty Queen Mother of Egypt and Sudan.The long and tortuous saga of "Queen Nazli" ended a journey memorable in the history of modern Egypt. The saga presented a slew of potentially incongruous, heavily turbulent actions in a struggle for power, fueled by ambition, forbidden passions and religious strife. At its center is a rare beauty that loved purely, suffered exquisitely and possessed for many ravishing close-ups before her tale was over.
On 12 March 1860, at 2 pm in the afternoon, Joseph Anthelme Sève, died from rhumatismic complications and was enterred far away from France, in the garden of his palace in Old Cairo, rather than at his family's mausoleum in Loyasse, France.
Better known to Egypt as "Suliyman Paşa"; one of his daughters, Nazli Hanim, married Mehmet Şerif Paşa, and her grand daughter with the same first name married HM King Fuat assuming the titles: Her Highness Sultana of Egypt, till 1922, Her Majesty Queen of Egypt, till 1938, Her Majesty Queen Mother of Egypt, till 1951, and finally Her Majesty Queen Mother of Egypt and Sudan.The long and tortuous saga of "Queen Nazli" ended a journey memorable in the history of modern Egypt. The saga presented a slew of potentially incongruous, heavily turbulent actions in a struggle for power, fueled by ambition, forbidden passions and religious strife. At its center is a rare beauty that loved purely, suffered exquisitely and possessed for many ravishing close-ups before her tale was over.
HM Queen Nazli and children: (from left to right) Prince Faruk, Princess Fevziye, Princess Feyke and Princess Feyze. Any mother would treasure it as a wonderful expression of the love and devotion which surrounded the Queen and her family life
A grim of silence shortly after dawn surrounds the final resting place of HM Queen Nazli, at the Holy Cross Cemetery & Mausoleum, Culver City, California, USA, where I laid a rose carnation on 1 August 2003
