 Skelton later admitted "A Young Girl's Touch" was a "roman à clef" with Melinda being herself and King Yoyo was King Farouk.Gore Vidal's 1953 pulp novel "Thieves Fall Out" is set against his overthrow.In 1954, the film "Abdulla the Great" was partially shot in Egypt in the Abdeen Palace and the Koubbeh Palace, and concerns the story of a fat and fabulously rich Middle Eastern king who lusts after a British model.