She also found the king's jokes painfully unfunny such as: "Have you heard what one palm tree said to the other? Let's make a date". She found the Villa Dusmet dark, gloomy and claustrophobic with the king's Albanian bodyguards imposing tight restrictions on where she could go while outside she always heard the barking of the guard dogs that were set loose on the grounds of the Villa. At Farouk's insistence, she moved into the Villa Dusmet that he rented outside of Rome to get her away from her "pervert" gay American friends. In the face of his rage, Stenberg did not dare tell Farouk that she was bi-sexual, fearing that would upset him even more. Stenberg lived in a Rome apartment with a gay American couple, which enraged the homophobic Farouk as he called her roommates "perverts" once he learned that the two men were more than just friends.
She described the king as very sexually aggressive, but in common with his other mistresses complained he had an abnormally small penis. This nice fat man was one of the world's symbols of power". >Stenberg wrote about sex with Farouk: "I'm doing this with the king of twenty million people. Farouk told her that this was cheaper than having to bribe newspaper editors from publishing any of the photographs the paparazzi might take of him. Whenever she went out with the king, his burly Albanian bodyguards were always on hand to seize the cameras from any paparazzi, a task that they performed with much efficiency as they roughed up several paparazzi who tried to take photographs of the king with his latest mistress. After following Farouk into exile in July 1952, Narriman had returned to Egypt in March 1953.
He sought the advice of pro-Axis el Maraghi who told him, "You will not rest until you have shot a lion." Whereupon Farouk shot two, at the Cairo zoo >Farouk told her that he liked her because her blond hair and large breasts together with her age reminded him of his second wife, the teenage Queen Narriman who likewise had blond hair and large breasts. >Farouk suffered from nightmares in which he was chased by a lion. >King Farouk amassed one of the most famous coin collections in history which included an extremely rare American gold minted 1933 double eagle coin and (non-concurrently), two 1913 Liberty Head nickels. He had three telephones by his bed, which he would use to ring up his friends at three in the morning and invite them to come over to his palace to play cards. >"Farouk never wrote a letter, never read a paper, never listened to music. Imagine a Comedy film about King Farouk of Egypt >Farouk's official mistress" described him as something of an immature "man-child" having no interest in politics and given to childish behavior liking making bread balls at restaurants "…to flip at the fancy people coming in and watch how they'd act when he hit the mark.