Hassan Aziz Hassan (Arabic: حسن عزيز حسن, also known as Nabil Hassan Aziz Hassan; February 22, 1924 – April 17, 2000) was an Egyptian prince. He was one of the last surviving members of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty (Egypt's last royal family). He held the title of "El-Nabil" (the noble prince, in Arabic), which was also his name at birth.
Having been educated in Beirut and England at

Leighton Park School Leighton Park School is a co-educational Independent school (United Kingdom), independent school for both day and boarding pupils in Reading, Berkshire, Reading in South East England. The school's ethos is closely tied to the Quaker values, havin ...

, he was a painter and pianist, and was a student and close friend of the expatriate Polish concert pianist Ignaz Tiegerman and of the artists

Fabrizio Clerici Fabrizio Clerici (15 May 1913 – 7 June 1993) was an Italian painter. Biography Clerici was a complex and eclectic artist and was also an architect, costume designer, scenographer and photographer. His works were exhibited in many museums ...

and

Leonor Fini Leonor Fini (30 August 1907 – 18 January 1996) was an Argentinian born Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Early life Fini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentin ...

who portrayed it. Hassan was born in Sanremo,

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

, a great-grandson of the

Khedive Ismail Isma'il Pasha ( ar, إسماعيل باشا ; 12 January 1830 – 2 March 1895), was the Khedive of Khedivate of Egypt, Egypt and conqueror of Sudan (region), Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when Tewfik Pasha, he was removed at the behest of Great Bri ...

and a cousin of King Farouk of Egypt, the country's last king. His father, Prince Aziz, a brother of King

Fuad I Fuad I ( ar, فؤاد الأول ''Fu’ād al-Awwal''; tr, I. Fuad or ; 26 March 1868 – 28 April 1936) was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and the Sudan. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sulta ...

, was a founder of the Wafd Party, and his mother was Spanis

He had two sisters, Princess Khadijah and Princess Aicha, and a brother, Ismail. Unlike many other members of the Egyptian royal family, he remained in Egypt following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, living in an apartment with one of his sisters, with whom he did not speak for years. He died in 2000, in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

, at the age of 76.

References

*Hassan Aziz Hassan. Memoir in
Remembering Childhood in the Middle East: Memoirs From a Century of Change
', compiled by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, pp. 85–109. University of Texas Press, 2002. . *Hassan Hassan.
In the House of Muhammad Ali: A Family Album, 1805-1952
' (2000). Egypt: American University in Cairo Press. .

External links

Article about Hassan Aziz Hassan
1924 births 2000 deaths People from Sanremo Muhammad Ali dynasty Egyptian princes Royalty from Cairo People educated at Leighton Park School Egyptian expatriates in Lebanon Egyptian expatriates in the United Kingdom Egyptian expatriates in Italy {{Egypt-bio-stub