Along with her husband, King George VI, the pair made their mark during World War Two by helping sustain national morale and helping resurrect the shatteredimage of the royal family after the preceding constitutional crisis.
The image has shattered the military's self-stylization as the defender of Egypt's defenseless, and it portrays the army in the same light as the seemingly ubiquitous thugs, or "baltagiya, " whose presence the military has used to justify its draconian law-enforcement methods of late.