Princess Faika of Egypt

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| name = Princess Faika

| image = Princess Faika Fuad of Egypt (cropped).jpg

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| spouse = Fouad Sadek

| issue = {{ubl|Fouad Sadek|Ismail Sadek|Fawkia Sadek|Fahima Sadek}}

| full name = Faika Fuad Sadek

| father = Fuad I

| mother = Nazli Sabri

| birth_date = 8 June 1926

| birth_place = Ras al Tin Palace, Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|1|7|1926|6|8|df=yes}}

| death_place = Cairo, Egypt

| house = Muhammad Ali

}}

File:ModernEgypt, Princesses Fathia & Faika, BAP 25577.jpg]]

Princess Faika ({{Langx|ar|الأميرة فائقة}}, 8 June 1926 – 7 January 1983) was an Egyptian royal and a member of the Muhammad Ali dynasty.

Early life

Faika Sadek was born at the Ras al Tin Palace, Alexandria, on 8 June 1926.{{cite book|editor=M. Epstein|title=The Statesman's Year-Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOjIDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA811|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=1926|isbn=978-0-230-27058-9|page=811|location=London}}{{cite journal|author=Rania Aly Maher|title=Ras Al Tin The Summer Residence of Muhammad Ali Dynasty at Alexandria|journal=IAJFTH|url=https://ijaf.journals.ekb.eg/article_161373_12c4000da73db923429bc503a417d648.pdf|year=2020|volume=6|issue=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421034549/https://ijaf.journals.ekb.eg/article_161373_12c4000da73db923429bc503a417d648.pdf|page=140|display-authors=et. al.|archive-date=21 April 2021|access-date=23 April 2022|url-status=live}} She was one of the daughters of King Fuad I and Nazli Sabri and the sister of King Farouk, Princess Fawzia, Princess Faiza and Princess Fathia.{{cite news|author=Richard Hornsby|title=Obituary: Princess Faiza Rauf|access-date=7 February 2013|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-princess-faiza-rauf-1414275.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=16 July 1994}} Her maternal great-grandfather was Major-General Muhammad Sharif Pasha, prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, who was of Turkish origin.{{cite book|author=Arthur Goldschmidt|year=2000|title=Biographical dictionary of modern Egypt|publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers|page=[https://archive.org/details/00jrgo/page/191 191]|isbn=1-55587-229-8

|location=Boulder, CO; London|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/00jrgo/page/191}}

Personal life

Faika married Fouad Sadek, an Egyptian commoner and a consular officer, in a civil ceremony on 5 April 1950 in San Francisco.{{cite news|title=Princess Faika to be wed Sunday|newspaper=The City Herald|date=4 June 1960|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1951&dat=19500604&id=dY4oAAAAIBAJ&pg=5945,3682626|agency=UP|location=Cairo}}{{cite news|title=Egypt princess cut off for wedding commoner|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3k9QAAAAIBAJ&pg=5072,951458&dq=princess+faika&hl=en|access-date=7 February 2013|newspaper=The Milwaukee Sentinel|date=17 May 1950|agency=INS|location=Cairo}}{{cite news|title=Princess forgiven for marriage

|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26707570|access-date=7 February 2013|newspaper=The Mercury|date=6 June 1950|agency=AAP|location=Cairo}} At first, King Farouk did not endorse the marriage, but later he confirmed it.{{cite news|author=Rym Ghazal

|title=A forgotten Egyptian Princess remembered|url=http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/a-forgotten-egyptian-princess-remembered|access-date=16 July 2013|newspaper=The National|date=8 July 2013}} Then they married in a religious ceremony at the Kubba Palace in Cairo on 4 June 1950. Faika's husband was given the title of "bey" after the marriage. The couple lived in the Dokki Palace on the Nile and Fouad Sadek began to work at the foreign ministry of Egypt. They had four children, two daughters and two sons.

Death

Faika died in Cairo on 7 January 1983 at the age of 56 following a long illness.{{cite news|title=Princess Faika of Egypt Dies

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/09/world/obituary-princess-faika-of-egypt-dies-sister-of-king-farouk-was-55.html|access-date=7 February 2013

|newspaper=The New York Times|date=9 January 1983|agency=Associated Press}}

Ancestry

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|title = Ancestors of Princess Faika of Egypt{{cite book|editor-last=Montgomery-Massingberd|editor-first=Hugh|editor-link=Hugh Massingberd|title=Burke's Royal Families of the World|volume=II: Africa & the Middle East|year=1980|publisher=Burke's Peerage|location=London|isbn=978-0-85011-029-6|oclc=18496936|page=287|chapter=The French Ancestry of King Farouk of Egypt}}

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|1= 1. Princess Faika of Egypt

|2= 2. King Fuad

|3= 3. Nazli Sabri

|4= 4. Khedive Ismail

|5= 5. Ferial Hanim

|6= 6. Abdel Rahim Sabri Pasha

|7= 7. Tewfika Hanim