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Two daughters of the same palace, raised by the same mother, ended up living out two completely different answers to the same question: what was an Egyptian princess actually allowed to want? Princess Fawzia did what a king's sister was supposed to do. She married a foreign crown prince for the good of the country and became one of the most photographed women on the planet in the process. Her younger sister Fathia did the opposite. She fell for a mid-ranking Egyptian civil servant, defied her...

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