Mohammed Ali Tewfik ( ar, محمد علي توفيق; 9 November 1875 – 18 March 1955) was the
heir presumptive
An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir apparent or a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question.
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of Egypt and Sudan in the periods 1892–1899 and 1936–1952. He was a member of the
Muhammad Ali Dynasty.
Regent
He was the son of
Khedive
Khedive (, ota, خدیو, hıdiv; ar, خديوي, khudaywī) was an honorific title of Persian origin used for the sultans and grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire, but most famously for the viceroy of Egypt from 1805 to 1914.Adam Mestyan"Kh ...
Tewfik I and
Emina Ilhamy
tr, Emine İlhami, italic=no
, house = Muhammad Ali
, father = Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha
, mother = Nasrin Qadin
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, birth_place = Constantinople (now Istanbul), Ottoman Empire
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, death_place = Bebek, Bosphorus, I ...
, and the younger brother of Khedive
Abbas II. Following the death 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 ...
in 1936, Prince Mohammed Ali served briefly as the chief regent for the 16-year-old
King Farouk I
Farouk I (; ar, فاروق الأول ''Fārūq al-Awwal''; 11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965) was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1 ...
until his coronation. In 1937 he represented Egypt and Sudan at the Coronation of King
George VI of the United Kingdom
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of Ind ...
.
In January 1952, his hopes of ruling were ended by the birth of King Farouk's son
Ahmed Fuad. In 1953 Egypt w