Fuad II of Egypt


Fuad II is a member of the Egyptian house of Muhammad Ali, who formally reigned as the last King of Egypt and Sudan from July 1952 to June 1953.

Fuad was born onJanuary 1952. He ascended the throne onJuly 1952 upon the abdication of his father King Farouk I following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. Farouk had hoped that his abdication would appease the revolutionaries and other antiroyalist forces, and that his son could serve as a unifying force for the country. However, the infant king reigned for less than a year untilJune 1953, when Egypt was declared a republic. Fuad II was the 11th and last monarch of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty, which had ruled Egypt since 1805. His name is sometimes spelled Fouad.

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