Editing Fuad II of Egypt (section)

==Life in exile==
[[File:Farouk I, Narriman & Fuad II in Capri.jpg|thumb|right|Narriman, Fuad and Farouk in exile in [[Capri]], Italy, 1953]]
Following Fuad's deposition,<ref>{{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]]}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":3">{{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}}</ref><ref name=":10" /> 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".<ref name=":3" /> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":10" /> He has a [[Monégasque passport]], on which he is named His Royal Highness Prince Ahmed Fouad Farouk.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":10" />

Growing up, Fuad and his half-sisters lived in [[Cully, Switzerland|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]].<ref name=":5">{{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}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{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}}</ref> He completed his secondary education, obtaining a [[French baccalaureate]], before studying at the [[University of Geneva]].<ref name=":5" /> 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> Fuad's Egyptian citizenship was restored in 1974. He has occasionally visited Egypt ever since,<ref name=":5" /> with his first visit occurring in 1991.<ref name=":3" /> On his Egyptian passport he has no titles and is simply identified as Ahmed Fuad with job description "previous king of Egypt".<ref name=":3" /> He is a [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi|Sisi]]-Supporter and has been granted a diplomatic passort by president [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi|Abdelfattah Al-Sisi]] as well as a private plane and financial support.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://alwatan.kuwait.tt/articledetails.aspx?id=383018&yearquarter=20143 |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=alwatan.kuwait.tt}}</ref>