Fuad II of Egypt

File:Farouk nariman10.jpg and Queen Narriman with Prince Fuad, January 1952]]

The son of King Farouk and his second wife Queen Narriman, Crown Prince Ahmed Fuad{{Efn|Fuad's full name is Ahmed Fuad bin Farouk bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin Muhammad Ali.{{Cite book |title=The Last Cheetah of Egypt: A Narrative History of Egyptian Royalty from 1805 to 1953 |last=Rosten |first=David B. |isbn=9781491779392 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7guCwAAQBAJ |year=2015|publisher=iUniverse }}{{Rp|page=129}}|group=lower-alpha}} was born on 16 January 1952 in Abdeen Palace.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} He was delivered at 8:30{{nbsp}}a.m. and named after his grandfather Fuad I.{{Cite news |date=17 January 1952 |title=King Farouk Has An Heir At Last |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |volume=35 |issue=591 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18252377 |access-date=10 December 2022}} Fuad had three half-sisters from Farouk's previous marriage with Queen Farida: princesses Farial, Fawzia and Fadia. As women could not inherit the Egyptian throne, Farouk's first cousin, Prince Mohammed Ali Tewfik, was heir presumptive until Fuad's birth.{{Cite book |last=Bardakçı |first=Murat |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QrRSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA164 |title=Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-977-416-837-6 |page=164 |language=en}} Immediately following his birth, Fuad was granted the title of Prince of the Sa'id.{{Cite news |date=17 January 1952 |title=Queen Narriman of Egypt Has Son; Joyful Nation Greets Farouk's Heir; 6 1/2-Pound Crown Prince Named Ahmed Fuad After Grandfather, the Late King – 101-Gun Salute Sounds Over Cairo |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/01/17/archives/queen-narriman-of-egypt-has-son-joyful-nation-greets-farouks-heir-6.html |access-date=2022-12-10 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite magazine |date=28 January 1952 |title=Egypt: Blessed Day |language=en-US |magazine=Time |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,806274,00.html |access-date=10 December 2022 |issn=0040-781X}} He was styled accordingly as Ahmed Fuad, Prince of the Sa'id.{{Cite news |title=Farouk's heir |volume=39 |page=34 |work=Newsweek |year=1952 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xN0M7iMTl0AC |access-date=10 December 2022}}

On 23 July 1952, the Free Officers led by Mohamed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser started the beginning the Egyptian revolution to dispose the Muhammad Ali non-Egyptian dynasty.{{Cite book |last=Morgan |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpIgDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA460 |title=History of the Coptic Orthodox People and the Church of Egypt |date= 2016 |publisher=FriesenPress |isbn=978-1-4602-8027-0 |page=460 |language=en |access-date=10 December 2022}} On 26 July, Farouk was ordered to abdicate in favour of the crown prince and leave Egypt.{{Cite web |last=Crompton |first=Paul |date=25 January 2014 |title=The overthrow of Egypt's King Farouk: a dramatic departure from power |url=https://english.alarabiya.net/perspective/features/2014/01/25/The-overthrow-of-the-king-Farouk-s-dramatic-departure-from-power |access-date=10 December 2022 |website=Al Arabiya English |language=en}} Farouk abdicated and went into exile in Italy. His family, including Fuad, joined him in exile. By stepping down, Farouk had wished that the forces opposing the monarchy would be placated, and that Fuad could unify the country during his reign.{{Rp|page=129}}

On Farouk's abdication, the army proclaimed that Fuad was now King Fuad II of Egypt and the Sudan, at only 6 months of age.{{Cite news |date=4 August 1952 |title=Farouk abdicates |volume=33 |page=32 |work=LIFE Magazine |issue=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YFYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32 |access-date=10 December 2022}}{{Efn|It was also reported that Fuad was proclaimed as King Ahmed Fuad II of Egypt and the Sudan.{{Cite news |title=British warships sail for Egypt |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jul/28/archive-british-warships-head-to-egypt-1952 |date=28 July 1952 |access-date=10 December 2022 |work=Manchester Guardian}}{{Cite book |title=The Unicorn Book of 1952 |publisher=Unicorn Books |year=1952 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=muYkAQAAMAAJ |others=Joseph Laffan Morse |page=226 |access-date=10 December 2022}}{{Cite book |title=Britannica Book of the Year 1953 |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |year=1953 |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/britannicabookof030444mbp |page=10 |access-date=10 December 2022}}|group=lower-alpha}} The country was now ruled by Nasser, Naguib and the other Free Officers. Naguib promised to maintain a constitutional monarchy with a regency council holding power until Fuad came of age.{{Cite news |date=11 August 1952 |title=Simple life for a King |volume=33 |page=24 |work=Life Magazine |issue=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TFYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24 |access-date=10 December 2022}} Fuad's constitutional powers were assumed by the Cabinet until 2 August 1952, when a regency body, but not a council, was established.{{Cite news |last=Rizk |first=Yunan Labib |date=27 January – 2 February 2005 |title=Royal help |work=Al-Ahram |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/727/chrncls.htm |access-date=10 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051024020743/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/727/chrncls.htm |archive-date=24 October 2005}} Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim was appointed regent and led the body.{{Rp|page=94}} The regency body had no actual powers, however, these having been effectively assumed by the Revolutionary Command Council which was led by Naguib. The body was dissolved on 7 September 1952 and Moneim was appointed the sole prince regent, though he still had no actual powers when serving in this role.{{Rp|page=94}}

The monarchy was formally abolished on 18 June 1953: Egypt was declared a republic for the first time in its history, and Naguib became its first ever President. Fuad was officially deposed and stripped of his royal titles.

File:Farouk I, Narriman & Fuad II in Capri.jpg, Italy, 1953]]

Following Fuad's deposition,{{Cite web |last=Ramadan |first=Nada |date=4 August 2015 |title='Last King of Egypt' cancels Suez Canal visit |url=https://www.newarab.com/opinion/last-king-egypt-cancels-suez-canal-visit |access-date=10 December 2022 |website=The New Arab}}{{Cite web |last1=Victor |first1=Dalia |last2=Farouk |first2=Sanaa |date=16 March 2022 |title=Egypt's last monarch visits Egypt |url=https://en.wataninet.com/features/tourism/egypts-last-monarch-visits-egypt/38163/ |access-date=11 December 2022 |website=Watani |language=en-US}} Fuad and his half-sisters were sent to live in Switzerland while Farouk remained in Italy, settling in Rome. Queen Narriman returned to Egypt in 1953 after wanting a divorce, and Farouk insisted that Fuad remain abroad.{{Cite news |last=Whitworth |first=Damian |date=3 February 2011 |title=Egypt's last king on life in exile |work=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/africa-travel/egypt/egypts-last-king-on-life-in-exile-xc8mfnd9l88 |access-date=10 December 2022}} In 1958, Fuad was stripped of his Egyptian citizenship.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}

Farouk would visit Fuad two or three times each year before the former's unexpected death, possibly from a heart attack, in 1965, when Fuad was 13 years old. Fuad believes that Farouk was "poisoned by enemies". When he died, there were rumours in the press that he had been poisoned by Egyptian intelligence, though there is no known evidence to confirm this.{{Cite book |last1=Akyeampong |first1=Emmanuel Kwaku |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA351 |title=Dictionary of African Biography |last2=Gates Jr. |first2=Henry Louis |date=2 February 2012 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=9780195382075 |volume=1-6 |page=351}} After Farouk's death, Fuad was guaranteed protection by Prince Rainier III of Monaco and his wife Princess Grace.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} Fuad would later become friends with Rainier in his early adulthood, when he visited Monte Carlo every summer. He has a Monégasque passport, on which he is named His Royal Highness Prince Ahmed Fouad Farouk.

Growing up, Fuad and his half-sisters lived in Cully, a small village on Lake Geneva, under the care of a nanny, governess and bodyguard. Fuad attended the local public school where he was bullied and then went to middle school in Lausanne, before later attending the Institut Le Rosey, an elite and prestigious private boarding school.{{Cite news |last=Maurisse |first=Marie |date=20 March 2011 |title=Fouad II d'Égypte, le roi oublié |language=fr-FR |trans-title=Fuad II of Egypt, the forgotten king |work=Le Figaro |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/mon-figaro/2011/03/20/10001-20110320ARTFIG00166-fouad-ii-d-egypte-le-roi-oublie.php |access-date=10 December 2022}}{{Cite news |last=Lagnado |first=Lucette |date=18 September 2010 |title=The Lonely King Without a Throne |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703743504575494270020776944 |access-date=10 December 2022}} He completed his secondary education, obtaining a French baccalaureate, before studying at the University of Geneva. He graduated with a degree in politics and economics in 1975.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}

In 1973, President Anwar Sadat lifted Fuad's and his half-sisters' exile.{{Cite web |last=Arrott |first=Elizabeth |date=2 December 2009 |title=Exiled Egyptian Princess Mourned in Cairo |url=https://www.51voa.com/VOA_Standard_English/VOA_Standard_English_34881.html |access-date=11 December 2022 |website=Voice of America |archive-date=11 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211203920/https://www.51voa.com/VOA_Standard_English/VOA_Standard_English_34881.html |url-status=dead }} Fuad's Egyptian citizenship was restored in 1974. He has occasionally visited Egypt ever since, with his first visit occurring in 1991. On his Egyptian passport he has no titles and is simply identified as Ahmed Fuad with job description "previous king of Egypt". He is a Sisi-Supporter and has been granted a diplomatic passort by president Abdelfattah Al-Sisi as well as a private plane and financial support.{{Cite web |url=https://alwatan.kuwait.tt/articledetails.aspx?id=383018&yearquarter=20143 |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=alwatan.kuwait.tt}}

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Fuad immigrated to Paris after graduating from university. In Paris, he set up a real estate business and married Dominique-France Loeb-Picard, a Jewish woman of Alsatian origin, in a civil ceremony in Paris on 16 April 1976.{{cite book |title=Burke's Royal Families of the World |publisher=Burke's Peerage |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-85011-029-6 |editor-last=Montgomery-Massingberd |editor-first=Hugh |editor-link=Hugh Massingberd |volume=II: Africa & the Middle East |location=London |pages=20–37 |chapter=The Royal House of Egypt |oclc=18496936}} She then converted to Sunni Islam,{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} and the two had a religious wedding in Monaco on 5 October 1977. Loeb-Picard changed her name to Fadila Farouk.{{Cite web |last=Webster |first=Paul |date=16 September 2002 |title=Egypt's last queen ousted from palatial Parisian apartment |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/16/paulwebster |access-date=11 December 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}} Egyptian monarchists addressed her as Queen Fadila of Egypt, a nickname coined by the media. She then formally assumed the title of Queen of Egypt.{{Rp|page=129}} In 1996, she and Fuad divorced, and he stripped her of her title.{{Rp|page=|pages=129–130}}

After years of divorce proceedings which began in 1999, the marriage was formally dissolved in 2008.{{Rp|page=129}} Fuad found the divorce "deeply painful" and suffered from depression and poor health. Since the divorce Fadila has been known as Princess Fadila of Egypt.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}

Fuad and Fadila had three children before their divorce: Prince Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id (born 5 February 1979), Princess Fawzia-Latifa (born 12 February 1982) and Prince Fakhruddin (born 25 August 1987).{{Rp|page=130}} The family lived together in Paris until the parents' divorce.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} After the divorce, Fuad was estranged with his children until {{circa|2011}}. Fuad has four grandchildren.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}

After his divorce with Fadila, Fuad returned to Switzerland to stay close with his half-sisters.

In May 2010, he recorded a television interview with ONTV and talked about his visits to Egypt, how he felt about the Egyptian people, and their view of his late father.

Fuad II supported the candidacy of Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as President of Egypt in October 2013.{{Cite journal|title=Je suis le dernier roi d'Égypte|journal=L'Illustré|url=http://www.illustre.ch/illustre/article/fouad|access-date=17 July 2018|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128165351/http://www.illustre.ch/illustre/article/fouad|archive-date=28 January 2016}} However, in 2023 The Economist reported that some Egyptians were clamoring for his return as Egypt's ruler as frustration with Sisi's rule deepened.{{cite news |title=Egyptians are disgruntled with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/06/15/egyptians-are-disgruntled-with-president-abdel-fattah-al-sisi |access-date=25 October 2023 |newspaper=The Economist |date=15 June 2023 |quote=Even the 71-year-old Ahmed Fouad, the son of the late King Farouk who resides in Switzerland and speaks broken Arabic, is occasionally mentioned.}}

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|1= 1. Fuad II of Egypt

|2= 2. Farouk I of Egypt

|3= 3. Narriman Sadek

|4= 4. Fuad I of Egypt

|5= 5. Nazli Sabri

|6= 6. Hussain Fahmi Sadek Bey

|7= 7. Asila Kamel Khanum

|8= 8. Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt

|9= 9. Ferial Hanem

|10=10. Abdel Rahim Sabri Pasha, Governor of Cairo

|11=11. Tawfika Sharif Hanim

|12= 12. Ali Sadek Bey

|14= 14. Mahmoud Kamel

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{{chart top|text-align=left|Patrilineal descent}}

1. Ibrahim Agha
2. Muhammad Ali of Egypt, 1769–1849
3. Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, 1789–1848
4. Isma'il Pasha, 1830–1895
5. Fuad I of Egypt, 1868–1936
6. Farouk of Egypt, 1920–1965
7. Fuad II of Egypt, b. 1952

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