[4] Her mother was Countess Sofie Vetter von der Lilie,[5] who after their divorce in 1881[6] married Hungarian inventor Tivadar Puskás, a close collaborator of Thomas Edison in 1882 in Westminster, Middlesex, England.
Although she never went to school, her elder brother, following Austrian tradition, was enrolled at the Theresianum, Vienna's famous academy patronized by Habsburg princes and scions of European, Egyptian, Ottoman and Oriental aristocracy.
[7] The khedive was immediately smitten with her and wasted no time initiating a short but passionate correspondence followed by an invitation for the countess to visit Egypt.
[9] Since neither sheikh or ulama accepted to tutor a member of the opposite sex, her teacher of the Quran was the famous Swiss Islamist, Hess von Wyss.
By order of the khedive, the wounded, mostly from Kavala near Macedonia, were allowed to recuperate in the Ras El Tin Palace, its halls and long corridors having been transformed into a temporary hospital.
He had personally masterminded its development supervising the construction of its Viennese style salamlik, planning its deepwater harbor and the planting of its pine forests.
When at Montaza, she and Abbas Hilmi traveled to Ras El Tin by special train with the khedive personally in control of the small locomotive.
It was to Mostorod that Abbas Hilmi dispatched exotic animals, gifts from foreign rulers such as the Sharif of Mecca's two desert greyhounds to which, Bosso, her little black dog, did not take to too kindly.
[7] Because court protocol discouraged royal consorts from participating in state events, she, with the complicity of her amused husband, would sometimes attend disguised official receptions dressed up as a man.
Rumors circulating both in and outside the court claimed the khedive was seeing Georgette Mesny also known as Andrée de Lusange whom he met at Maxim's in Paris the previous summer.
Lusange was a 20 years old short, lean, heavily painted woman who distributed her favors for 20 francs and once in the khedive's entourage spied for the French government.
Other acquaintances included Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Austrian novelist Robert Musil, Norwegian writer Olaf Gulbransson and German author-playwright Gerhart Hauptmann.
[7] Between the two wars, she made a dash for the motion pictures and theater planks, her latest vocation earning her occasional cover stories, some of which were picked up by the Egyptian press.
49 Schlueterstr Berlin-Charlottenburg, she gave piano concerts, wrote short plays for the radio and authored several works including Back to Paradise, The Great Seven, Soul And Body and Gulzar.
During World War II, she took refuge in Vienna and immediately after the Germans surrendered, moved to Innsbruck where she worked as an interpreter for the French Military Government in July 1945.
[7] Refusing to leave enticing spotlights, Javidan made it back to the media once more, this time as a supplicant for an entry visa to the United Kingdom.
Her motive was a visa enabling her to travel to London to take a screen test for the film Queen For A Day produced by Alfred Golding of Eureka Holdings.