Dominique-France Loeb-Picard, also called Princess Fadila of Egypt or Fadila Farouk, is the French ex-wife of Fuad II, former King of Egypt and the Sudan.
Citizenship
France, Monaco
Born
November 23, 1948
Overview
Dominique-France Loeb-Picard (born 23 November 1948), also called Princess Fadila of Egypt, is the French ex-wife of Fuad II, former King of Egypt and the Sudan.
Life and family
Dominique-France Loeb-Picard was born on 23 November 1948 into a Jewish family 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.
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.
Fadila choose a Turkish yashmak as her bridal headcraft, symbolising her conversion to her husband's religion.
