Editing Farouk of Egypt (section)

===Confiscated possessions===
The Egyptian government quickly moved to auction off the King's vast collection of trinkets and treasures,<ref name="Herald">{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12637606|title=Sale of the Century|date=31 January 1954|newspaper=The Sun-Herald|access-date=11 April 2013|location=Sydney, New South Wales|page=13}}</ref> including his seven-piece bedroom suite that was inspired by [[Napoleon]] and [[Joséphine de Beauharnais|Josephine's]] suite at the [[Château de Malmaison]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Prime Provenance: The King Farouk Bedroom Suite|url=http://www.artfixdaily.com/blogs/post/9242-prime-provenance-the-king-farouk-bedroom-suite|website=ArtfixDaily|access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref> Among the more famous of his possessions was one of the rare [[1933 double eagle]] coins, though the coin disappeared before it could be returned to the United States. (It later reappeared in New York in 1996 and was eventually sold at auction for more than seven million dollars.)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://coins.about.com/od/famousrarecoinprofiles/p/1933_Gold_Eagle.htm|title=1933 Gold Double Eagle|author=Susan Headley|publisher=About.com|access-date=5 July 2013|archive-date=14 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914101924/http://coins.about.com/od/famousrarecoinprofiles/p/1933_Gold_Eagle.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Attracting much prurient interest both in Egypt and abroad was the revelation that Farouk owned one of the largest collections of pornography in the world, as he possessed a vast collection numbering into the hundreds of thousands of pornographic photographs, postcards, calendars, playing cards, watches, glasses, and so on.{{sfn|Stadiem|1991|p=328}} Farouk's obsession with collecting also ranged into diamonds, dogs, stamps, rubies, Fabergé eggs, ancient Tibetan coins, medieval suits of armour, aspirin bottles, razor blades, paper clips and Geiger counters.{{sfn|Stadiem|1991|p=328}} At the Koubbeh Palace, it was discovered that Farouk had collected 2,000 silk shirts, 10,000 silk ties, 50 diamond-studded golden walking sticks and one autographed portrait of Adolf Hitler.{{sfn|Stadiem|1991|p=328}}

The 94-carat Star of the East diamond and another diamond bought from Harry Winston had not been paid for by the time of the King's overthrow in 1952; three years later an Egyptian government legal board entrusted with the disposal of the former royal assets, ruled in Winston's favour.{{fact|date=August 2024}} Nevertheless, several years of litigation were needed before Winston was able to reclaim the Star of the East from a safe-deposit box in Switzerland.{{fact|date=August 2024}}