 On 28 April 1936, King Fuad died of a heart attack and Farouk left England to return to Egypt as king.Farouk's first act as king was to visit Buckingham Palace to accept the condolences of King Edward VIII, one of the few Englishmen whom Farouk liked, and then he went to Victoria Station to take a train to Dover and was seen off by the Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden.At Dover, Farouk boarded a French ship, the "Côte d'Azur", which took him to Calais.