Outside Ahmed Fuad II’s study in a rented house in Switzerland there are long views across vineyards towards Lake Geneva and the mountains beyond. But inside Fuad has eyes only for the events flickering on his television screen, events that could force Hosni Mubarak, despite his insistence that he will die on Egyptian soil, to join a rather exclusive club — that of exiled Egyptian heads of state. Fuad is currently the only member.
On a warm night in July 1952 a yacht slipped away from Alexandria harbour taking Fuad and his family into exile in Europe. He was six months old and the last king of Egypt.
Fuad had become King of Egypt and Sudan earlier that day when, after an Army coup, his
