a regency council was established following the death of king fuad i, since his son farouk was still a minor. prior to his death, fuad i had named in a formal document the three members who were to serve on the regency council: adli yakan pasha (a former prime minister who had already died by the time farouk i became king), tawfiq nasim pasha (another former prime minister) and mahmoud fakhri pasha (a former foreign minister married to fuad i's eldest daughter princess fawkia). however, parliament rejected king fuad i's choices, and appointed three totally different regents: prince muhammad ali (son of the late khedive tawfiq pasha and thus first cousin of king farouk i), aziz ezzat pasha (a former foreign minister married to behiye yakan hanem, another cousin of farouk i) and sherif sabri pasha (farouk i's maternal uncle). the regency council was formally sworn in on 8 may 1936 in front of a joint session of parliament. king farouk i assumed his full constitutional powers upon reaching his age of majority (fixed at 18 years and calculated according to the islamic calendar) on 29 july 1937.