Dominique-France Loeb-Picard

Dominique-France Loeb-Picard (born 23 November 1948), also called Princess Fadila of Egypt, is the French ex-wife of Fuad II, former King of Egypt and the Sudan. Dominique-France Loeb-Picard was born on 23 November 1948 into a Jewish family in Paris as the daughter of Jewish-Alsatian archaeologist Prof. David-Robert Loeb and his French-Swiss wife, Paule-Madeleine Picard. Aged 29, as a student at the Sorbonne, Fadila wrote her doctoral thesis on the psychology of women in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. Loeb-Picard met and began a courtship with deposed king Fuad II; they contracted a civil marriage on 16 April 1976 in Paris, followed by a religious wedding in Monaco on 5 October 1977. Although she married Fuad II long after the loss of his throne, she was still styled as Her Majesty Queen Fadila of Egypt by monarchists. Fadila choose a Turkish yashmak as her bridal headcraft, symbolising her conversion to her husband's religion. The marriage ended in divorce in 1996, and afterwards she was styled as Her Royal Highness Princess Fadila of Egypt. In 2002, her apartment in Paris was taken from her due to her outstanding debts The marriage was dissolved in 2008, and her royal style and title were removed by Fuad II.