Shivakiar Khanum Effendi

Shivakiar Ibrahim (; ; 25 October 1876 – 17 February 1947 Shivakiar had two brothers, Prince Ahmad Saif ud-din Ibrahim (1881 – 1937), and Prince Muhammad Wahid ud-din Ibrahim. Her aunt Princess Ayn al-Hayat Ahmad was the first wife of Sultan Hussein Kamel. She was mother of 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. She then went on to marry four times and had numerous affairs.

Shivakiar's second husband was Raouf Thabet Bey. She married him on 14 March 1900, and divorced him three years later in 1903. She then married Seyfullah Yousri Pasha on 2 January 1904. He was the first Egyptian ambassador to Washington, D.C., and with whom he had a daughter Sarwat Hanim, who married Prince Amr Ibrahim.

With Seyfullah, Shivakiar had a daughter, Lutfia Hanim, born in 1905, and a son, Wahid Yousri Bey. Shivakiar divorced him on 10 January 1916, and had two daughters, Nimet Hanim and Nevine Hanim. Shivakiar divorced him on 2 March 1925, son of Hafız Hüseyin Pasha and Gülnev Hanım in 1927. and had two sons. The marriage, however, ended in divorce. When she inherited from her brother Prince Ahmad Saif ud-din, she went to live in a palace opposite parliament which had been built by Ali Pasha Gelal, son of Princess Zubeida and Menelikli Pasha.

She died at the Kasr al-Aali Palace, Cairo, on 17 February 1947 and was buried in Hosh al-Basha, Imam al-Shafi'i, Cairo, Egypt. Her tomb, in accordance with her will, was made of marble in the shape of a large, untidy bed. After her death her youngest son, Muhammad Wahideldin Selim, asked Prince Yusuf Kemal to allow him to buy the princess's original villa, and the prince agreed. He then proceed to make the palace more palatial, installing, among other things, a splendid, aubergine marble staircase. The garden was transformed, along completely formal lines, very pleasantly and successively.

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