Personal Life
Boutros-Ghali speaks fluent Arabic, English, French, Italian and Spanish. He and his wife had three sons, Nader, Youssef, and Naguib. While in exile in London, his wife died suddenly at just 49-years-old. Boutros-Ghali suspected she had been poisoned, but after investigating police ruled her death to be the result of a heart attack.
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