The last princesses of the royal family in Iraq, Badia Bint Ali bin Al Hussein, died yesterday, Saturday, in a hospital in the British capital, London, at the age of 100.
Iraqi media said that Princess Badia had been transferred to the hospital, but she died later, while her Iraqi politician, Sharif Ali bin Al-Hussein, wrote an obituary on his Facebook page.
Princess Badia is the daughter of Al Sharif Ali Bin Al Hussein (the last king of the Hijaz), and the granddaughter of Al Sharif Al Hussain Bin Ali, King of the Arabs and the leader of the Great Arab Revolution, and the daughter of my brother King Faisal I, the first king of Iraq, and the wife of Sharif Al Hussain Ibn Amir Ali (Prince of Mecca), and the sister of the trustee of The throne of Iraq, Prince Abdul Ilah Ibn Malik Ali. She is also the daughter of my brother King Abdullah I, king and founder of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and sister of Queen Alia, wife of King Ghazi Thani, the kings of Iraq.
The princess was born in Damascus in 1920, and she lived her childhood in Mecca, then moved with her family to Iraq.
Princess Badia was the last princess of the royal family, who survived the "Massacre of Rehab massacre" in 1958 in which the monarchy was overthrown in Iraq and the republican system was established, and she sought refuge in the Saudi embassy in Baghdad, which secured her a safe exit from the Iraqi capital to Cairo, accompanied by her husband And her children.
She spent some time in Egypt and then moved to Switzerland, and then to the United Kingdom.