Nariman Sadeq, 70; Former Egyptian Queen Was Married to Farouk
Nariman Sadeq, 70, former wife of the late King Farouk of Egypt, died Wednesday in a Cairo-area hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
Nariman was 16 when she married Farouk in 1951. She gave birth to his heir, Ahmed Fouad, in 1952, six months before the military overthrew the monarchy.
The royal couple, their baby and Farouk’s three daughters from a previous marriage fled to Italy. Nariman and Farouk later divorced, and she returned to Egypt in early 1954.
She remarried and had a son before again divorcing. The former queen had lived in a small apartment in Cairo’s upscale Heliopolis neighborhood.
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