Farouk, the son of King
Fuad, was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1920.
Educated in England he returned to become king in 1937. The following
year he removed the government of Nahas Pasha. Farouk tried to introduce
land reform and modernize the economy but because of large-scale corruption
progress was slow.
Winston
Churchill
was not impressed by Farouk's
reaction to the invasion of the Italian
Army in February 1941 and forced him to recall Nahas Pasha
to power.
The failed 1948 Palestine
campaign reinforced the view that Farouk's government was inefficient
and corrupt. In 1952 General Mohammed Neguib
and Colonel Gamal
Abdel Nasser
forced Farouk
I to abdicate.
Farouk went to live in
Italy. He later became a citizen of Monaco. Farouk died in 1965.
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