Shivakiar Ibrahim

Shivakiar Ibrahim (Arabic: شويكار إبراهيم; Turkish: Şivekâr İbrahim; 25 October 1876 – 17 February 1947[1]) was an Egyptian princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali dynasty.

She was the first wife of King Fuad I. Princess Shivakiar Ibrahim was born on 25 October 1876 in Üsküdar (formerly Scutari), Istanbul.

[13] With Seyfullah, Shivakiar had a daughter, Lutfia Hanim,[14][15] born in 1905,[11] and a son, Wahid Yousri Bey.

[6] Her younger daughter, Lutfia Hanim's husband was Ahmed Hassanein, an Egyptian courtier, diplomat, politician, and geographic explorer.

[10] Towards the end of her life she devoted herself to the furtherance of social welfare and, as the president of the Muhammad Ali Benevolent Society, and of the ‘Mar’al-Guedida’ (New Woman), a society which trained young girls for various professions, notably nursing and dress-making, rendered great service to her country.

She was also the author of Mon pays: la renovation de l'Egypte, Mohammed Aly which was published in 1933, and The Pharaoh Ne-Ouser-Ra and His Little Slave Girl.

Princess Shivakiar used to live close to Prince Yusuf Kemal's palace, in a spacious villa which he had lent to her.

[18] Princess Shivakiar, also had a "gallery of ancestors" at her Cairo palace, where she housed busts of all the viceroys down to a huge statue of King Farouk, the penultimate ruler of the Muhammad Ali dynasty.

[18] He then proceed to make the palace more palatial, installing, among other things, a splendid, aubergine marble staircase.

Shivakiar with her first husband, Prince Ahmed Fuad (later King Fuad )
Autochrome by Georges Chevalier, 1931
Tomb of Shivakiar Ibrahim