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Farouk of Egypt
Ruler + King
Male
Born
Feb 11, 1920
Hometown
Cairo
Died
Mar 18, 1965
Death Place
Rome
Farouk I of Egypt, was the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I of Egypt, in 1936. His full title was "His Majesty Farouk I, by the grace of God, King of Egypt and Sudan… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1920
Birth
Born on February 11, 1920.
TEENAGE
1938
18 Years Old
They were married in 1938, and divorced in 1948, producing three daughters. Farouk's second wife was a commoner, Narriman Sadek (1934–2005). They were married in 1951, and divorced in 1954, having only one child, the future King Fuad II. While in exile in Italy, Farouk met Irma Capece Minutolo, an opera singer, who became his companion. In 2005, she claimed that she married the former King in 1957.
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TWENTIES
Following a ministerial crisis in February 1942, the British government, through its ambassador in Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson, pressed Farouk to have a Wafd or Wafd-coalition government replace Hussein Sirri Pasha's government.
1948
28 Years Old
Farouk was widely condemned for his corrupt and ineffectual governance, the continued British occupation, and the Egyptian army's failure to prevent the loss of 78% of Palestine to the newly formed State of Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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THIRTIES
1952
32 Years Old
Finally, on 23 July 1952, the Free Officers Movement under Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser staged a military coup that launched the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.
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1958
38 Years Old
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On 29 April 1958, the United Arab Republic, a federation of Egypt and Syria issued rulings revoking his citizenship.
1959
39 Years Old
He was granted Monegasque citizenship in 1959 by his close friend Prince Rainier III.
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FORTIES
1965
45 Years Old
He died in the Ile de France restaurant in Rome, Italy on 18 March 1965.
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