On 28 March 1949, at the Koubba Palace in Cairo, Princess Fawzia married Colonel Ismail Chirine (or Shirin) (1919–1994), who was the eldest son of Hussein Chirine Bey and his wife, HH Princess Amina Bihruz Khanum Effendi.[44][45] He was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and a one-time Egyptian minister of war and the navy. Following the wedding they lived in an estate owned by the Princess in Maadi, Cairo.[45][46] They also resided in a villa in Smouha, Alexandria.[47] Unlike her first marriage, this time Fawzia married for love and she was described as far happier being married to Colonel Chrine than she ever had been to the Shah of Iran.[48]