In the British capital at the age of 99 years passed away princesses from the Iraqi Royal family of the Hashemite Badia, reports TASS. An elderly woman died in one of the British clinics in just a few weeks short of his century.
Badia bint Ali bin Hussein al-Hashimi was born in 1920 in Damascus. Her grandfather Hussein bin Ali, the leader of the rebel movements in the middle East against the Turkish yoke, with the support of the British. He later became the king of Hijaz (now part of Saudi Arabia). The son of father Hussein and Badia Ali would rule in the Arabian Peninsula, however, the claims of the king of the Hejaz to become the head of all Arabs led to civil war. In the result of Ali and his family were forced to flee from Mecca to Iraq.
In 1958, the Baghdad coup led by General Abdel Karim Qassem, which marked the end of the reign of the Hashemite dynasty in Iraq. Princess Badia managed to escape the massacre and take refuge with relatives in Saudi Embassy. In the result of Saudi diplomats helped her move first to Cairo, then to Switzerland and then to London.
In connection with the death of Princess Badia his condolences to the relatives expressed by the Prime Minister of Iraq, Mustafa al-Kazimi and the Hashemite Royal court of Jordan.
