Farida of Egypt
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Safinaz Hanim Zulfikar (Arabic: صافيناز ذوالفقار ) or Queen Farida الملكة فريده was the first wife of King Farouk. She was born in Alexandria and died in Cairo, in 1988.
She married King Farouk on 20 January 1938 at the Kubbe sarayi (سراية القبة) in Cairo. She had three daughters: HRH Princess Feriyal فريال, HRH Princess Fawziya فوزية and HRH Princess Fadia فادية. After the birth of a third daughter, Farouk divorced her, on 19 November 1948. Thereafter she lived most of her life in Paris until she returned to Egypt, then ruled by Sadat, in 1974.
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