BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONALITY OF A FAMOUS AQUARIUS: KING FAROUK

Last reigning king of Egypt (1936–52), born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of Fuad I. He was educated in England, and studied at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. After World War 2 he turned increasingly to a life of pleasure. The defeat of Egypt by Israel (1948) and continuing British occupation led to increasing unrest, and the Free Officers' coup (1952) forced his abdication and exile, and in 1959 he became a citizen of Monaco. He was succeeded by his infant son as Fuad II, but the establishment of a Regency Council was forestalled by the formation of a republic some months later. He died in Rome.