King Farouk assembled one of the world’s greatest coin collections, only to see its legendary rarities scattered across the globe in a chaotic 1954 auction.

DUBAI (Reuters) - A Patek Philippe watch once owned by Egypt's King Farouk has sold for $912,500 at a Christie's auction in Dubai, an official from the auction house said, setting a record for a watch ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - A rare gold watch once owned by Egypt's King Farouk is expected to fetch $400,000 to $800,000 when it auctions this week at Christie's in Dubai. Made in 1944 and embossed with old ...

King Farouk has never liked his demagogue Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, has twice fired him from the premiership. Farouk’s father, old King Fuad I, felt the same way about Nahas. He also sacked the ...

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The biography of King Farouk I of Egypt, the penultimate king of the Muhammad Ali dynasty. Succeeding his father, Fuad I, to the throne, Farouk's reign ended when the Egyptian revolution of 1952 broke ...

A 93-year-old Searcy woman is trying to sell "fine antique items" that were confiscated from King Farouk's Abdeen Palace in Cairo after he was overthrown in a military coup in 1952. That's according ...