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Queen Effat is the daughter of Prince Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abdullah bin Thunayan bin Ibrahim bin Thunayan bin Saud, and the wife of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. She married him when he was Viceroy of the Hijaz and Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1932, and she is the only one among the wives of Saudi kings to have been divorced. She has the title the Queen, and she is the sister of Kamal Adham, the founder of Saudi intelligence. Her lineage goes back to the House of Saud, and her great-grandfather is Abdullah bin Thunayan bin Ibrahim Al Saud, who was the ruler of Najd, who was captured by Ibrahim Pasha bin Muhammad Ali and sent him with Imam Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah. Al Saud to Egypt, and it is a branch of Prince Thunayan bin Saud bin Muqrin, son of Prince Saud bin Muhammad bin Muqrin, brother of Imam Muhammad bin Saud. They were transferred to Turkey at the request of the Sultan. Queen Iffat was born and raised in Istanbul, and there she continued her primary and secondary education in Turkish schools and acquired a cultural culture. Modern due to the development of education in Turkey at that time. She came to Saudi Arabia to meet her family and perform Hajj with her aunt Jawaher in 1931. She has a university in Jeddah named after her (Effat University). She died February 17, 2000, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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