Any one heard about king Farouk of Egypt?

Question

ya, thanks 4 the info and photos

Answer 1

yeah i do go to http://info.infomideast.com/farouk.html to find out about him and there  are some pictures.

Answer 2

What in particular are you refering to?

Answer 3

King Farouk the last king of Muhammad Ali dynasty .

I am quoting here from the Wikipedia :

But this Farouk, the one I came to know, was not the overweight, dissipated monarch who became the subject of so many Western satirists and cartoonists. He was still a handsome man, lean and tall, patriotic and idealistic, with clear blue eyes that sparkled when he spoke. -Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, pg. 57 in Faces in Mirror, 1980.

He was never called the thief of Cairo, maybe his enemies (British) has promoted this , because he used to like Italians and dislike the English; who were like a  a nail in his head .

EDIT

the king of Egypt during the 40's, was indeed like a cover up enemy of the British, they were occupying his country, forcing his government to pay for their own war against Germans, causing the people of Egypt enormous misery for a war they (Egyptian) had nothing to do with.

British at this time; were the typical case of the occupier villein.

King Farouk, had his palace located on the shore of Alexandria (south of the Mediterranean), lit; all night, although it must be not to avoid the German's air raid, but he intentionally; did that as a secret code for the Germans; to spare his palace from being bombed

Actually, almost all Egyptians were against the British, sympathizer to Germans,(the enemy of my enemy; is my friend).  Do you blame them

Answer 4

King Farouk (1920-1965) was the tenth king of the Muhammad Ali Dynnasty and was styled as the "penultimate ruler of Egypt and the Sudan";  however, he was forced to abdicate by the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 and thereafter lived in exile in Italy and Monaco until his death.  

A playboy infamous for his lavish lifestyle (he burned the Palace lights in Alexandria in the middle of a blackout during World War II), morbid obesity (in the end he weighed 300 pounds), and his corrupt government, King Farouk also was a skilled pickpocket, pilfering the Shah of Iran's ceremonial sword and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's pocket watch, all of which earned him the nickname "The Thief of Cairo".

P. S. Thunder, I'm just summarizing the Wikipedia article.  He was a n**i sympathizer (which wasn't that uncommon in the Middle East).