You are a fraud.  You drank and gambled your way through University and bribed your professors to pass you with a degree in foreign languages.  In reality, you are barely literate in English.  

Your personal history is no less seedy. During your youth, you cavorted through a series of harems in Persia, always sneaking out under cover of darkness when your debts became too great.  Most of your actual cash went to bribes so that you could quickly rise through the military ranks.
 
Since reaching the age of forty, you have mended your ways and become the picture of respectability – with two exceptions.  You are an avid drinker and, although you are married, you are embroiled in a torrid affair with Mrs. White.