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==Marriage== [[File:Narriman 10.jpg|thumb|right|Fuad and Fadila's wedding in 1977]] Fuad immigrated to Paris after graduating from university.<ref name=":5" /> In Paris, he set up a real estate business and married [[Dominique-France Loeb-Picard]], a Jewish woman of [[Alsatian Jew|Alsatian origin]], in a civil ceremony in Paris on 16 April 1976.<ref name=":7">{{cite book |title=Burke's Royal Families of the World |publisher=Burke's Peerage |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-85011-029-6 |editor-last=Montgomery-Massingberd |editor-first=Hugh |editor-link=Hugh Massingberd |volume=II: Africa & the Middle East |location=London |pages=20β37 |chapter=The Royal House of Egypt |oclc=18496936}}</ref> She then converted to [[Sunni Islam]],{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} and the two had a religious wedding in Monaco on 5 October 1977.<ref name=":7" /> Loeb-Picard changed her name to Fadila Farouk.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |last=Webster |first=Paul |date=16 September 2002 |title=Egypt's last queen ousted from palatial Parisian apartment |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/16/paulwebster |access-date=11 December 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref> Egyptian monarchists addressed her as Queen Fadila of Egypt,<ref name=":7" /> a nickname coined by the media.<ref name=":5" /> She then formally assumed the title of [[Queen of Egypt and Sudan|Queen of Egypt]].<ref name="Rosten2015" />{{Rp|page=129}} In 1996, she and Fuad divorced, and he stripped her of her title.<ref name="Rosten2015" />{{Rp|page=|pages=129β130}} After years of divorce proceedings which began in 1999,<ref name=":9" /> the marriage was formally dissolved in 2008.<ref name="Rosten2015" />{{Rp|page=129}} Fuad found the divorce "deeply painful" and suffered from [[Depression (mood)|depression]] and poor health.<ref name=":3" /> Since the divorce Fadila has been known as Princess Fadila of Egypt.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} === Issue === Fuad and Fadila had three children before their divorce: [[Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id|Prince Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id]] (born 5 February 1979), [[Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt|Princess Fawzia-Latifa]] (born 12 February 1982) and Prince Fakhruddin (born 25 August 1987).<ref name="Rosten2015" />{{Rp|page=130}} The family lived together in Paris until the parents' divorce.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} After the divorce, Fuad was [[Family estrangement|estranged]] with his children until {{circa|2011}}.<ref name=":3" /> Fuad has four grandchildren.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}
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