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The 17-year-old princess grew up in sophisticated, exclusive Cairo speaking French, English and Arabic. She was a knockout: a more luscious version of Hedy Lamarr, a softer Vivien Leigh. Cecil Beaton photographed her for the cover of Life magazine. Her life was chronicled in newspapers worldwide, which referred to her as “one of the world’s most beautiful women.” When the crown prince became shah, Fawzia became the empress; their daughter was Princess Shahnaz. Yet rumors of Fawzia’s marital unhappiness reached Cairo.
