Fazile Hanımsultan
Sabiha Fazile Hanımsultan, 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, France. She was the daughter of Prince Mehmed Ali Ibrahim of Egypt and Ottoman Princess Zehra Hanzade Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk and Rukiye Sabiha Sultan. She had a younger brother, Sultanzade Ahmed Rifat Bey.She was educated at the Heathfield School, Ascot.
In September 1957, she went to Iraq to meet King Faisal II, to whom she was engaged through the mediation of her relative, Şehzade Mahmud Namık. 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 Hayri Ürgüplü, son of Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, in Paris. The couple had two sons: Ali Suad Ürgüplü and Mehmed Selim Ürgüplü. 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 Asri Cemetery.