Princess Sabiha Fazile Hanımsultan of Egypt was born on 8 August 1941 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

[2][3] In September 1957 she went to Iraq to meet King Faisal II, to whom she was engaged through the mediation of her relative, Şehzade Mahmud Namik.

The engagement came as a shock to her parents, as Fazile, as well as being the daughter of two exiled dynasties, was only sixteen and still in school, but they agreed anyway.

However, on 14 July 1958, two weeks before the date of the wedding, Faisal was assassinated in a coup.

[1] Fazile married secondly Jean-Alphonse Bernard on 18 June 1983, with whom she lived in France.