Early Life
She was the daughter of Abdu'r-Rahim Pasha Sabri, Minister of Agriculture and Governor of Cairo, by his wife, Tawfika Khanum Sharif. Queen Nazli also was the maternal granddaughter of Major-General Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, who was of Turkish origin. She was also a great-granddaughter of the French-born officer Suleiman Pasha.
Nazli Abdel Rehim Sabry first went to the Lycée de la Mère de Dieu School in Cairo, and later to Notre Dame de Sion in Alexandria.After the death of her mother, Tewfika Hanem, her father sent her and her sister to Paris, France for two years. After she returned, she was married by force to her paternal Turkish cousin, Khalil Sabri. After 11 months of marriage, she got divorced by force also because of her cousin's bad behavior. After her divorce, she stayed for about a month at the house of Safia Zaghloul, wife of Saad Zaghloul, where she met Saad Zaghloul's nephew, Saeed. She was engaged to Saeed until he broke up with her in his exile with his uncle. Later on 12 May 1919, the Sultan Fuad I proposed to her, although he was twenty five years older than her. She was forced to accept because of her father's weakness against the Sultan to refuse.
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