King Farouk lead the country during the second world war, though Brits still lurked in the background.

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In 1952, King Farouk the First of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.

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The Egyptian army, which has underpinned the country's rulers since its officers overthrew King Farouk in 1952, will not be happy.

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After the war they lived in Egypt as a guest of King Farouk until he was deposed in 1952, when they moved to Paris.

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Fouad Serageddin, the octogenarian boss of the conservative New Wafd Party, served as interior minister in King Farouk's last government before the 1952 revolution.

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The rarest of this group is a pair of ivory-gripped pistols previously owned by King Farouk of Egypt, which come in their original varnished walnut case.

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