In May 1950, San Francisco and the Arab world were rocked by an unprecedented marriage: Princess Fathia, daughter of King Fuad and sister of King Farouk, chose to marry Riad Ghali, a Coptic Egyptian civil servant outside the royal circle. This marriage, which defied religious and political norms, unleashed a storm of media scandals, political crises, and harsh royal decrees that culminated in the stripping of the princess and her mother of their titles. But the story didn't end within the confines of the palace or the press; twenty years later, it came to a tragic end with three bullets ending the princess's life, and a fourth that sealed the fate of her husband. In this book, Salah Issa chronicles a story where power intersects with love, sectarianism with personal freedom, and politics with human destiny, revealing hidden facets of modern Egyptian history in one of its most compelling and controversial cases.