Barbara Skelton wedded prominent critic Cyril Connolly in 1950, a marriage which ended in 1956. At the time of her engagement to Connolly in 1950, King Farouk took his much publicised "bachelor party" in Europe, and invited Skelton to join his entourage as he travelled across Europe. Connolly encouraged his fiancée to go with the king as she recalled: "He thought I could get money from Farouk for pay for our honeymoon. He had no idea how tight this king was". Despite encouraging his fiancée to go with Farouk, Connolly became consumed with jealousy and started stalking the royal party as Skelton remembered: "Cyril turned out to be more jealous than I first thought." Despite the fact that he was worth $140,000,000 US dollars (a sum equivalent to a billion dollars today), Farouk stole rings belonging to 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'."