ntext of parliamentary instability informed by royalist, nationalist, and British rivalries and various shifts in the locus of control, with the British dominating in particular during the world wars. The line of rulers was as follows: Abbas, deposed by the British in favor of his uncle, Sultan Husayn Kamil, who was succeeded by his brother King Ahmad Fu'ad, followed by his son Farouk. Meanwhile, a constitutionalist/nationalist movement called the Wafd came in and out of power, although it became factionalized and discredited when it supported the British--significantly, against the increasingly anti-British Farouk. In that connection, it can be seen that if the British installation of a king in Egypt was meant to resonate with Pharaonic glory while remaining under effective British conrol, Farouk's anti-British sentiment belied that. In other words, Farouk may have absorbed lessons of Egyptian nationalism that the British did not necessarily intend to teach.
After World War II the British were firmly in power, though Egyptian governance was in disarra
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