Farouk of Egypt

==Marriages and affairs==
[[File:Farouk_and_Farida_official_portrait.jpg|alt=Farouk and Farida official portrait|thumb|305x305px|Farouk and his wife Queen [[Farida of Egypt|Farida]] in their wedding, 1938]]
Farouk was married twice, with a claim of a third marriage. His first wife was [[Farida of Egypt|Safinaz Zulficar]] (1921–1988), the daughter of [[Youssef Zulficar Pasha]]. Safinaz was renamed Farida upon her marriage. They were married in January 1938.<ref>{{cite news |date=13 March 1939 |title=Colorful Fetes Mark Royal Wedding that will Link Egypt and Persian |newspaper=The Meriden Daily Journal |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=id9IAAAAIBAJ&pg=3855,4689544 |access-date=8 August 2013}}</ref> The marriage was under a large amount of stress due to Queen Farida's inability to produce a male heir, which Farouk found essential to maintain his throne. After producing three daughters, the couple divorced in 1948.

In 1950, Farouk was smitten by a commoner named [[Narriman Sadek]] (1933–2005) and after courting, the two married in 1951. Sadek was eighteen years old when she married the king and many believed the attraction was due to Farouk's belief that she would give him the male heir he desired. He got what he wanted when Sadek gave birth to the future King Fuad II on 16 January 1952. However, months after the prince's birth the king and his queen were expelled from Egypt, and divorced in 1954.[[File:Farouk family official, colored.jpg|thumb|Farouk I with his wife Queen Farida and their first-born daughter [[Princess Farial of Egypt|Farial]] (c. 1939)|289x289px]]
[[File:Farouk_nariman10.jpg|alt=Farouk and Narriman|thumb|Farouk I with his second wife Narriman and their newly born boy [[Fuad II of Egypt|Fuad]] (1952)|249x249px]]He also had many [[affair]]s, among them, in 1950, British writer [[Barbara Skelton]]. In 1955 his eye fell on the [[Boston]] socialite-become-singer [[Pat Rainey]].<ref>"Singer Pat Rainey and King Farouk Rumored To Be An Item", ''[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]]'', 3 November 1955. https://www.flickr.com/photos/vieilles_annonces/1387933349</ref> While in exile in Italy, Farouk met [[Irma Capece Minutolo]], an opera singer, who became his companion. In 2005, she said she married the former King in 1957.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/734/sc3.htm|title=Thrice-married man?|work=Al-Ahram Weekly|date=23 March 2005|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216152243/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/734/sc3.htm|archive-date=16 December 2008}}</ref>

===Children===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Name!!Birth!!Death!!Spouse!!Children
|-
| [[Princess Farial of Egypt|Princess Farial]]
| 17 November 1938
| 29 November 2009
| Jean-Pierre Perreten<br /><small>Divorced 1967</small>
| Yasmine Perreten-Shaarawi (b. 1967)
|-
| [[Princess Fawzia Farouk of Egypt|Princess Fawzia]]
| 7 April 1940
| 27 January 2005
| 
| 
|-
| [[Princess Fadia of Egypt|Princess Fadia]]
| 15 December 1943
| 28 December 2002
| Pierre Alexievitch Orloff
| Michael-Shamel Orloff (b. 1966)<br />Alexander-Ali Orloff (b. 1969)
|-
| [[Fuad II of Egypt|King Fuad II]]
| 16 January 1952
| 
| [[Dominique-France Loeb-Picard]]<br /><small>Divorced 1996</small>
| [[Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id]] (b. 1979)<br />[[Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt|Princess Fawzia-Latifa]] (b. 1982)<br />Prince Fakhruddin (b. 1987)
|}