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Shivakiar Ibrahim (; ; 25 October 1876 – 17 February 1947) was an Egyptian princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali dynasty. She was the first wife of King Fuad. Early life Princess Shivakiar Ibrahim was born on 25 October 1876 in Üsküdar (formerly Scutari), Istanbul. She was the only daughter of Field Marshal, Prince Ibrahim Fahmi Pasha (1847 – 1893), and his first wife, Najivan Hanim (1857 – 1940). She was the granddaughter of Prince Ahmad Rifaat Pasha (1825 – 1858) and Shams Hanim (died 1891). Shivakiar had two brothers, Prince Ahmad Saif ud-din Ibrahim Bey (1881 – 1937), and Prince Muhammad Wahid ud-din Ibrahim Bey. Her aunt Princess Ayn al-Hayat Ahmad was the first wife of Sultan Hussein Kamel. Marriages Princess Shivakiar first married her first cousin once removed Prince Ahmed Fuad (first cousin of her father), who later became the King of Egypt, on 30 May 1895 at the Abbasiya Palace. Fuad and Shivakiar had been no match whatsoever to each other, because at the time of their marriage, Shivakiar was one of the richest women in Egypt, while Prince Fuad's gambling debts had almost bankrupted him. She gave birth to a son, Ismail, born in Naples in 1896, and died in infancy at Alexandria on 6 July 1897, and a daughter, Fawkia Hanim, born on 6 October 1897 in the Saffron Palace.