Family
Suzanne Mubarak is the wife of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. She is the daughter of an Egyptian pediatrician, Saleh Thabet, and Welsh nurse Lily Palmer. Saleh Thabet, at the time a 29-year-old medical student at Cardiff University, married the 29-year-old Lily May Palmer at Islington, London on 16 March 1934. Palmer was a trained nurse working at The Infirmary on Camden Road, Islington. She was the daughter of colliery manager Charles Henry Palmer, and grew up in Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales. Suzanne Mubarak's older brother, Mounir Sabet, is a former president of the Egyptian Olympic Committee.
She has two sons — Alaa and Gamal — two grandsons and a granddaughter. One of the two grandsons, 12 year old Muhammad Mubarak, died on 18 May 2009 in Paris after a two-day health crisis.
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