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Huzaima bint Nasser

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Predecessor
  
Title created

Predecessor
  
Title created

Name
  
Huzaima Nasser

Successor
  
Title abolished

Successor
  
Aliya bint Ali

Grandchildren
  
Faisal II of Iraq

Huzaima bint Nasser
Tenure
  
8 March 1920 – 24 July 1920

Tenure
  
23 August 1921 – 8 September 1933

Died
  
March 27, 1935, Baghdad, Iraq

Spouse
  
Faisal I of Iraq (m. 1904–1933)

Children
  
Ghazi of Iraq, Princess Raifia bint Faisal

Parents
  
Nasser ibn Ali, Dilber Hanum

Similar People
  
Faisal I of Iraq, Ghazi of Iraq, Faisal II of Iraq, Hussein bin Ali - Sharif of, Ali of Hejaz

Huzaima bint Nasser (1884–1935) was an Arabian princess, Sharifa of Mecca. Her father was Prince Nasser bin 'Ali Pasha. She was his younger twin daughter. In 1904, in Istanbul, she married the prince Faisal son of the Sharif of Mecca. Their first born was a daughter, Azza (1906–1936), followed by other two girls, Rajiha (1907–1959) and Raifi'a (1910–1934), and finally by a boy Ghazi (1912–1939), the future king of Iraq.

After World War I, the former dominions of the Ottoman Empire were divided between the European nations, or proclaimed independent. In 1920, Faisal was proclaimed king of Syria, and so Hazima became queen of Syria. In order to reach her husband, she moved with her children into the new established royal palace in Damascus. But, unfortunately, after only four months of reign, the kingdom of Syria was dissolved after the Franco-Syrian War, and so both Faisal and Hazima lost their titles.

In 1921, the British government decided to put Faisal as king of the new Kingdom of Iraq, over which they had an international mandate. He accepted and he was proclaimed king of Iraq. Naturally Hazima became queen, and the royal family was transferred to Baghdad the capital of the new kingdom.

Faisal died in 1933, and was succeeded by his son Ghazi, and so Hazima became queen mother of Iraq.

She died in Baghdad two years later, in 1935.

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