(properly) Marthe Frezet von Carnap Bornheim, baroness. Also known as: Alix Marthe Louise Frezet and Alix Marthe Louise Frezet-Suares. Wife of Baron Constantin Philipp [Ottomar Gerhard] von Carnap Bornheim – the owner of a mansion near Gorzow Wielkopolski. Buried on 15 August 1928 in Janczewo (formerly Jahnsfelde) near Gorzow Wielkopolski; also an Egyptian princess. Former wife of Prince Aly Fazil of Egypt. Her funeral was one of the most spectacular events in the pre-war history of the town.

Born in Paris (France). Died in Naples (Italy). Mistakenly called an "Egyptian Queen". One of the most colorful and mysterious characters of the 19th century. She was born in Paris to Jean Louis Némorin Frezet and Marie Rose Biot. The fate of her father remains unknown. Her mother remarried Raphael Suares, who may have adopted Marthe around 1890. She was married three times: to a Catholic, a Muslim and Protestant. She also divorced three times. Her first husband was [Louise Francois] Paul Bounin, whom she married on 26 November 1891 in Paris. They had one daughter [Francoise] Anne Bounin (born on 14 December 1893 in Nice). Her second husband was a Turk – a prince of Egypt – Aly Fazil (properly Aly Haidar Fazil Pasha – born in Constantinople in 1875). He was the first cousin of the King Fuad I of Egypt, a member of the Turkish family that ruled Egypt. Their wedding took place on 24 April 1898^[1] in Maazoun Kekhia Ezbekieh in Cairo. They had two sons: Said Fazil (born in 1898 in Naples) and Ibrahim Fazil (born in 1901 in Cairo). The marriage lasted until 1908^[2]. After the divorce, Khedive Abbas Hilmi II pronounced her a princess in her own rank. On 19 June 1912 in the Westminster Registry Office in London, she married for the third time, with Constantin Philipp von Carnap (b. 20 December 1875^[3], Janczewo] – baron and aristocrat, owner of the Janczewo estate. Previously, the Landsberg press had stated that Baroness von Carnap had been the wife of King Fuad's brother. This was untrue, because at the time of her death, the King was only eight years old. Due to this error, Marthe Frezet von Carnap Bornheim has been called the "Egyptian Queen" to this day. According to recently discovered documents, Marthe and Philipp were divorced on 7 November 1919 in Berlin. However, it was a technical divorce that helped her to renounce her German citizenship and save her property. In fact, the two lived together until Marthe’s death. Marthe and the baron had no children.

She died on 24 June 1928 at the family seat, Villa Carnap at 50, The Posillipo, Naples. Her body brought to Landsberg. Her funeral turned out to be one of the greatest events in the town’s history, and was widely reported by the European press. The princess’s body was displayed in a glass-lidded coffin for over a month in the Catholic church on present-day Warszawska street, in expectation of mourners from all over the world. The nobles and magnates of America, India, Italy and Egypt gathered in prewar Gorzów. Over 200 distinguished guests attended, along with crowds of local Landsberg residents, although the date of the funeral was shrouded in secrecy. Alongside Baron Constantin von Carnap Bornheim, a Protestant, the Catholic ceremony was attended by the princess’s two sons, Said Fazil and Ibrahim Fazil (the Landsberg clerk of court who drew up the funeral memorandum failed to record their surnames) who had come from India and Australia as officers of the British Army. Distant and close relatives alike were also in attendance, as were representatives of the Joanniter order (of which Baron von Carnap was a member) dressed in black ritual wigs with white crosses. During the ceremony, the coffin was covered in a red velvet drape made by Maison Worth, Paris’s first fashion house. The initials M. Carnap were embroidered into the drape in gold thread. The funeral was celebrated by Catholic choirs from Naples and Landsberg and two global stars of opera, Mafalda Salvatini and Beniamino Gigli. Savatini had won renown on the stages of Vienna, Dresden and Berlin for her performances of Tosca, Madame Butterfly and Carmen, while Gigli sang at La Scala under Arturo Toscanini. He had over four hundred performances to his name in the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Paris Opera. Cardinal Sabatier, Carnap’s personal confessor, her private doctor, Professor Jacquier, the Archbishop of Landsberg, a lieutenant of unknown surname, the envoy of Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and Catholic clerics from Italy (including Naples), Germany and Switzerland were among the many in attendance. Francoise Anne Bounin, Carnap’s daughter from her first marriage, was not. After the mass, the ornate coffin was taken to a hearse, one of the twenty cars that made up the funeral cortege. The procession made its way to Janczewo, where the baroness was buried in a mausoleum that had been built in 1880 on the von Carnap family estate.

To honour his late wife, Baron von Carnap chartered an aeroplane from Berlin with the aim of writing her name, Marthe, in coloured smoke above the funeral procession on its way to Janczewo. However, the flight was cancelled at the last moment due to rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.

Baron Constantin von Carnap left for Egypt in 1945 where he died at the age of 94, on 13 May 1969 in an Italian hospital in the town of Abbasieh (near Cairo). He was buried in Cairo.

The mausoleum, like the other buildings in the mansion, was plundered and destroyed after the Second World War. What happened to the remains of the baroness and other family members remains unknown. According to the most popular story, they were buried in a park surrounding the mausoleum, near the destroyed walls.

The father of Marthe's second husband, prince Aly Fazil, was "Al-Amir" Mustafa Fazil, the heir apparent to his elder brother, Khedive Ismail of Eygpt. That marriage bore two sons, Said Fazil (born in 1898) and Ibrahim Fazil (born in 1901). Both came to Landsberg in 1928 for their mother's funeral. Said had served as a second lieutenant in the British Army until he was wounded at Arras and left for Australia. He returned to Egypt, where he was drowned three years after the death of his mother. He did not start a family, nor did he have any children. The other son, Ibrahim, graduated from Brighton College. He chose to be a confirmed member of the Church of England. He settled down in Great Britain and served in the army. He retired with the rank of major. His wife was an American, Kate Stevens. They had two children: a son, Philip Ali Fazil (born in 1935), who changed his names to Philip Anthony Foxwood on leaving the army; and a daughter, Marthe Alix Fazil (born in 1936). Marthe's grandson, Philip A. Foxwood, also served in the British Army. In 1964 he fought in Aden (now Yemen), where he was wounded. He is now a retired captain. His wife, (Rose) Mary Reece, is Welsh, and their son and Marthe's great grandson is Hugo Charles Amory Foxwood. He has a wife, Naomi Ana Louise Cheesman, with whom he has a son, Isaac Harold da Silva; and a daughter, Beatrice Rose da Silva.

The various studies on the Fazil and Carnap families contain numerous errors concerning Marthe. For example, the date of her birth is wrongly given as 1877. Another error claims that her first husband (actually, her second) was the brother of the Egyptian king (in fact, he was his cousin). Various sources, including Marthe's family, say otherwise. In many sources she is called Marthe [Alix] Frazet "du Longpre". The suffix "du Longpre" should be taken as erroneous. In all likelihood, it was first adopted by one of the Landsberg officials when writing about her funeral. It was repeated by Christopher Buyers in his publication "The Royal Ark" (2000). However, the name "du Longpre" does not exist in Burke's Royal Families of the World. Philip Foxwood, Marthe's grandson, who has been researching on his families for many years, has pointed out the error. Another mistaken claim is that in 1912 Baron Constantin von Carnap married a widow, Martha Louise Fazil. She was, in fact, a divorcee. There is no evidence that they had children.

In 2022, La princess egyptienne, by Marie-Christine Giguel, for whom the Egyptian Princess was a great-great aunt, was published in France. Mme. Giguel had worked on the book since 2018, visiting archives and record offices in France, Italy, Great Britain and Poland. She established contact with descendants of the von Carnap line in Germany and of the Fazil line (among others, Philip A. Foxwood) in England. By 2023, she had visited Gorzów and Janczewo four times. [ Data per day: 3.01.2013/1.04.2023 ]