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British officers I knew in Cairo. Life in the palace with Farouk was not boring". In 1945, the ambassador, Sir Miles Lampson, decided that Skelton was a security risk, believing that she was leaking information to Farouk, and she was reassigned to the embassy in Athens. Of these allegations, Skelton stated: "After all, I was in a sensitive position, and they were convinced that Farouk was settling me up just to get information from me. What they could never understand was that Farouk couldn't have cared less. The only communications to England that mattered to him were his telexes ordering silk neckties from Hawes and Curtis. There was absolutely nothing political about him then". Farouk encouraged Skelton to run up a large bill with dressmakers, promising her he would pay for it all, which he did not when she informed him that she was being reassigned to
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Skelton as she remembered: "One night he asked to see these lovely eternity rings I had for years and years. I never got them back. I'm sure he took them and had them woven into Narriman's famous bejewelled wedding dress". Skelton recalled: "After Biarritz Farouk and his group kept on to Cannes and Cyril and I went to the Dordogne. I was glad to get away, especially from the press. I had become the 'mystery woman'."
324:. Divorce was very difficult to obtain in Britain until 1967, and it was necessary to prove adultery conclusively to the courts to be granted one. In 1956, her marriage to Connolly was ended when evidence of her adultery with Weidenfeld was presented to the court and in 1961 her marriage to Weidenfeld was ended when evidence of her adultery with Connolly was presented to the court.
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