Childhood

During her childhood in Paris, Fawzia discovers, within the family collections of books, paintings, lithographs, and black-and-white photos, the golden legend of the Egyptian royal family, the beauty of the sultanas and Circassians, as well as the modernity of the Egyptian princesses, wildly beautiful and influential women. Her grandmother, Queen Narriman, tells her about life in the past at the palaces along the Nile and the Mediterranean. She prepares and teaches her the court’s culinary recipes while passing on a love for Egypt.

Her father, H.M. Fouad II, the last king of Egypt, also shares his passion for the country with her. To ease their exile, the young princess spends memorable hours at the Louvre Museum with him, where she marvels at and carefully studies the treasures and aesthetics of ancient Egypt, in preparation for a long-awaited trip on the Nile that finally takes place when she is 9 years old.

Studies

From her French mother and grandmother, Fawzia inherits her Parisian chic and artistic sensibility. At the Janson de Sailly high school, she dreams of sailing again and again on the Nile, her mind filled with arabesques, animated frescoes, and mythical stories. After growing up between Paris, Switzerland, Rabat, and Monaco in this enchanting atmosphere, she earns her degree from Sciences Po Strasbourg and a master’s in Cultural Project Management at Paris VIII. Fawzia then dives into linguistic and anthropological studies of the Mediterranean at INALCO.

In Spain, she studies History at the University of Granada and begins learning jewelry design.