Aged 29, as a student at the Sorbonne, Fadila wrote her doctoral thesis on the psychology of women in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.
[2] Loeb-Picard met and began a courtship with deposed king Fuad II; they contracted a civil marriage on 16 April 1976 in Paris, followed by a religious wedding in Monaco on 5 October 1977.
Although she married Fuad II long after the loss of his throne, she was still styled as Her Majesty Queen Fadila of Egypt by monarchists.
[3] Fadila choose a Turkish yashmak as her bridal headcraft, symbolising her conversion to her husband's religion.
The marriage ended in divorce in 1996, and afterwards she was styled as Her Royal Highness Princess Fadila of Egypt.