Stardust memories: Darius Kadivar recalls the story of Soraya, the beautiful but tragic second wife of Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran.(Biography)

The Middle East | April 1, 2007| | Copyright

SORAYA, 'THE PRINCESS WITH SAD EYES' as she was to be known in the western press after her divorce from the Shah of Iran in the late 1950s, was one of the most beautiful and photographed women of the 20th century. Empress of Iran, and second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, she was born in Isfahan on 22 June, 1932. Daughter of Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, later Iranian ambassador to West Germany, and Eva Karl (a German citizen born in Moscow), she was named after a constellation of seven stars, the Haft Peykar. Little did she or her parents know that her name and beauty ...

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