 Before his father's death, he was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, England.The Italophile Fuad wanted to have Farouk educated at the Turin Military Academy, but the British High Commissioner Sir Miles Lampson vetoed this choice as growing Italian claims for the entire Mediterranean to be "Mare Nostum" ("Our Sea") made it unacceptable for the Crown Prince to be educated in Italy.In October 1935, Farouk left Egypt to settle at Kenry House in the countryside of Surrey to attend the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich as an extramural student.