Announcing her return to Egypt, the court put out the following statement: ‘The Persian climate had endangered the health of Empress Fawzia, and that thus it was agreed that the Egyptian King’s sister be divorced.’ Her daughter remained in Iran. Just a year later, in 1949, she married again, this time to Egyptian aristocrat Colonel Ismail Chirine. This time, it was a love match, and the two went on to have a son and a daughter. The House of Ali was deposed in 1952 after a revolution, but the Princess went on living in Egypt. It was then she uttered her famous remarks that she had lost not one crown, but two. She died on 2 July 2013 at the age of 91.
