At the time of her birth, King Farouk was eighteen years of age and his wife, Farida of Egypt, was seventeen.

Her birth was marked by nationwide celebrations which included the distribution of clothes and free breakfasts to thousands of poor.

Ferial's correspondence with her mother Farida shows that she was very sad to leave Egypt and especially the people she knew and loved there.

[2] Ferial’s father Farouk was a very strict parent during their exile, requiring the sisters to get permission for even trivial things such as haircuts and wearing nail polish.

[2] Ferial lived the majority of her life before her marriage outside of Montreux, where she taught typing and French literature.

[2] After Ferial’s mother Queen Farida died in 1988, she and her two sisters were prompted to file a lawsuit against the Egyptian government over their ownership of a royal palace in the Nile Delta.

However, the Egyptian court ruled against them because their parents' divorce had voided their mother's claim to the land even before all royal property was taken over during the revolution.

[2] Princess Ferial died in a hospital on 29 November 2009, aged 71, in Montreux, Switzerland, where she had been receiving treatment for stomach cancer, which she was diagnosed with in 2002.