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There were many and varied writings regarding the women’s adventures of King Farouk, but most of the novels were built on one basis, which is that Farouk was a womanizer.
His birth and his coronation on the throne of the guarded
King Farouk I was born on February 11, 1920, to be installed as King of Egypt following the death of his father on April 28, 1936, to ascend the throne on May 6, 1936.
As a minor, a guardianship council was formed, headed by his cousin, Prince Muhammad Ali bin Khedive Tawfiq, brother of King Fouad I.
Until he was officially crowned a year later as King of Egypt following a fatwa was issued by Al-Azhar that he had reached the age of rule, according to the Hijri calendar for Egypt, and he was crowned as an official king on July 29, 1937.
The king’s surprise for the bride’s family
A strange story was reported regarding him, and it was mentioned in the book “Celebrities and Scandals”, by the writer “Ashraf Tawfik”, which tells that a married couple used to spend their evenings with the king, choosing for him the selection of women with whom the king spends his nights.
And on one of those nights, that family invited him to the wedding of their daughter, and as soon as he saw her, he was captivated by her beauty, so he waited until the end of the marriage ceremony, and when the concubines departed,
Farouk asked her parents to have intercourse with the bride before her husband, and he did not find any attempts with him to dissuade him from what he wanted.
Threatening the groom with death
The king threatened to stir up a scandal if the family did not acquiesce to his demand. Rather, if he refused the king’s order, he would expose them to execution. The groom agreed,
In return for blessing him with the title of Beykoy, and appointing him to a senior position in the royal palace, and finally the groom agreed, leaving the king to order his bride to be alone with her instead of him.