She was the youngest daughter of the late Former King Farouk of Egypt and his first wife, the Queen Farida.

[citation needed] After her father was deposed during the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the Princess lived in Italy for two years.

[1] On 17 February 1965, Fadia married Pierre Alexeievich Orloff (born 13 December 1938), a geologist and descendant of Orlov family, at the Kensington Registry Office, in London.

The Princess worked as a translator for the Swiss Ministry of Tourism, being fluent in French, Arabic, English, Italian and Spanish.

Fadia died in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 28 December 2002 and was buried in the Al-Rifa'i Mosque in Cairo, Egypt.