She is the daughter of Prince Ibrahim Fahmy Pasha and Princess Nagwan, granddaughter of Ahmed Refaat Pasha who is the oldest son of Ibrahim Pasha bin Mohamed Aly and the First Egyptian Interior Minister in the Alwian Family Era and died in El-Kafr El-Zayiat accident.

Princess Shwekar was born in 1847 and died in 17th February 1947. She was buried in El-Mammalek Deserts cemetery currently known as El-Ghafir which lies in front of Khedive Ismail cemetery known as Afandina cemetery. Princess Shwekar has two brothers; Prince Wahid Seif El-Din and Prince Ahmed Seif El-Din.

Princess Shwekar was very popular lady and she had charity works including the establishment of the first journal for ladies in Egypt in 1945 named "The New Woman" it was a cultural and literary journal.

Princess Shwekar's Palace was receiving many significant figures and a meeting was held every Sunday named "Salon" with participation of the state's men and members of Mohamed Ali family, in addition to two other parties namely the New Year" and "Farouk Birthday on 11th February".

The Palace of Princess Shwekar locates in the People's Assembly Council Street (Magles El-Sha'ab) or El-Kasr El-Eny Street which is one of the most famous streets in Cairo where many important historical buildings exist and others were damaged. Beside the palace there was El-Dobara Palace which witnessed several historical events during the English Occupation period.

Princess Shwekar's Palace locates currently in front of the People's Assembly Council which was known as the Egyptian Parliament then the Nations Council which established by King Fouad I in 1922. The Geographical Association established in 1857 lies beside the palace and therefore the palace lies in a region which includes many important buildings.

Although the Palace was known as Princess Shwekar ones but the historical references state that the palace was built by Ali Pasha Galal husband of Effat, one of the royal family members, and son of Princess Zbeida. Princess Shwekar took the palace and made some amendments represented in additions of decorations and marble as well as making large garden.

However the Palace specific establishment date is not clear but it is established at the beginning of the 20th Century from 1900 to 1907.

Princess Shwekar lived there for long time then the Egyptian government bought the palace in King Farouk era with large sum of money and made it for the Egyptian Cabinet of Ministers nearby the Egyptian Parliament. Princess Shwekar moved to the palace built by her son Prince Mohamed Wahid El-Din in El-Matryia which was also known by her name. The Palace gathered all the Princess's items and she lived there until she died in 1947.

The Permanent Committee of the Islamic Monuments agreed on registering the Palace with the historical buildings on 15/3/1987.

The Palace was built in the French-Italian style because such style dominated Egypt's palaces at the beginning of the 14th to 20th C. The outer design of the palace looks like Youssef Pasha Kamal Palace in El-Matryia which was built by Eng. Lashak Bek and decorations made by the Italian Eng. Nenaky. Both palaces were built at the same period.

Although the palace's architectural style follows the French-Italian style but designs of the main interface follow the Turkish style representing in the mosaic at the top of the interface as well as Othmani colored and golden plant decorations used in the mosaic. This style is rare to be used in decorating palaces in Egypt.

As for the architectural design, the palace consists of two buildings the first one is the main and it consists of three floors and a basement while the second building lies at the west and consist of three floors and a basement and it was built with the same style of the main building with private entrance along with a small pass leads to the main palace.

The palace interfaces have rectangular or semi-circular windows and marbles were used in decorating these windows and interfaces were decorated by cornice.

The main entrance lies at the northern side of the palace and can be reached through marble stairs leads to the entrance hole which is decorated using European style.

The main entrance leads to the entrance hall with colored marble floors in the form of engineering decorations and such leading to the main hall of the palace.

The lobby is a rectangular area with three semi-circular arches supported by two pillars covered by marbles with golden decorations for the arches legs. Beside the main lobby there are six mirror doors which give the place wide area and doors are decorated by golden semi-circular arches. Decorations are influenced by style of the renaissance era arts. Each door is topped by decorated ornament. The mentioned rooms are currently used as the Prime Minister's office and his secretaries as well as main meetings room.

The main lobby ceil is a real example of the Italian technical style used in palaces of the 20th C. in Egypt where corners are decorated by engineering decorations in the form of vertical and horizontal lines and golden decorations are used, something which give greatness to the palace.

Offices of the Prime Minister and the office manager are decorated by plant decorations, paintings, engineering decorations and animals and birds forms. The main salon opens at the main lobby with two doors and it is decorated by marble as well as engineering and plant decorations. Some walls therein are covered by decorated cloth and there is door in one of these rooms lead to the main meetings room.

The main salon lies in the first floor of the palace specialized for formal meetings and walls are decorated in the form of rectangular spaces. There is large mirror in one of the salon's walls and the ceil looks like the main lobby's ceil.

You can reach the second floor through marble stairs around the first and second floors and large colored window opened at the second floor.

The architectural design of the second floor looks same as the first floor but differs in few architectural factors. Its architectural planning consists of main lobby and the walls covered with wood of one meter height. The second floor opened at five doors; two doors in each side and the fifth at the front where each door lead to internal rooms while the fifth leads to small pass to the three other rooms. Some of these rooms have large bathrooms covered with decorated plant and engineering marble for human and animal figures.

The Palace ground is made from wood floor decorated by engineering decorations.