Sabiha Fazile Hanımsultan (8 August 1941 – 27 September 2024), also called Fazile Ibrahim, was an Egyptian and Ottoman princess, daughter of prince Mehmed Ali Ibrahim of Egypt and princess Zehra Hanzade Sultan.

Biography

Princess Sabiha Fazile Hanımsultan of Egypt was born on 8 August 1941 in

Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine (; 'Neuilly-on-Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department just west of Paris in France. Immediately adjacent to the city, north of the ...

, France. She was the daughter of Prince Mehmed Ali Ibrahim of Egypt and Ottoman Princess Zehra Hanzade Sultan, daughter of

Şehzade Ömer Faruk Şehzade Ömer Faruk Efendi (; also Ömer Faruk Osmanoğlu; 27 February 1898 – 28 March 1969) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman prince, the son of the last caliph of Muslim world Abdulmejid II and his first consort Şehsuvar Hanım. He was also th ...

(son of Caliph

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) and Rukiye Sabiha Sultan (daughter of Sultan

Mehmed VI Mehmed VI Vahideddin ( ''Meḥmed-i sâdis'' or ''Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn''; or /; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as ''Şahbaba'' () among the Osmanoğlu family, was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman Cal ...

). She had a younger brother, Sultanzade Ahmed Rifat Bey. She was educated at Heathfield College, Ascot. In September 1957 she went to

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to meet King

Faisal II Faisal II (; 2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during the 14 July Revolution. This regicide marked the end of the thirty-seven-year-old Hashemite monarchy ...

, to whom she was engaged through the mediation of her relative, Şehzade Mahmud Namik. The engagement came as a shock to her parents, as Fazile, as well as being the daughter of two exiled dynasties, was only sixteen and still in school, but they agreed anyway. However, on 14 July 1958, two weeks before the date of the wedding, Faisal was assassinated in a coup. On 10 April 1965, Fazile married in Paris Hayri Ürgüplü (b. 31 May 1936), son of

Suat Hayri Ürgüplü Ali Suat Hayri Ürgüplü (13 August 1903 – 26 December 1981) was a Turkish politician who served a brief term as Prime Minister of Turkey in 1965. He was also the last Prime Minister to be born outside the territory of present-day Turkey, be ...

. The couple had two sons: Ali Suad Ürgüplü (b. 28 September 1967) and Mehmed Selim Ürgüplü (b. 31 October 1968). The couple divorced on 24 September 1980. Fazile married secondly Jean-Alphonse Bernard on 18 June 1983, with whom she lived in France. She was widowed in 2015. Fazile died in Istanbul on 27 September 2024, at the age of 83. She was buried with her mother, in the Aşiyan cemetery.

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