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  1. Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (Persian: ثریا اسفندیاری بختیاری, romanized: Sorayâ Esfandiâri-Baxtiâri; 22 June 1932 – 25 October 2001) was Queen of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whom she married in 1951. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she was infertile.

  2. Feb 13, 2023 · The story goes that the recently divorced prince, who was formerly married to Princess Fawzia of Egypt, had ‘fallen in love’ with a picture of the 18-year-old Soraya and hastily invited her to his palace to have dinner with the queen mother, Tadj ol-Molouk.

    • She Was A Spoiled Heiress. Soraya was groomed for a royal destiny from the very start. The only daughter of Iranian nobleman Khalil Esfandiary and his wife, the German heiress Eva Karl, Soraya grew up in luxury and spent her adolescence shuttling between Berlin and Isfahan while attending the best finishing schools.
    • She Had A Foul Temper. Soraya was famous for her half-Iranian, half-German good looks even as a gangly teen—but underneath she wasn't so pretty. She had a notoriously Teutonic, brusque manner coupled with a bad temper, and could snap in an instant when someone annoyed her.
    • A Single Photo Made Her Queen. Soraya’s legendary beauty preceded her, quite literally. Around 1948, the Queen Mother of Iran, Tadj ol-Molouk, was on the lookout to get her son Shah Mohammad Reza a new wife.
    • She Was Too Young. The Queen Mother was so gung-ho about Soraya, she sent over one of her daughters to see what the girl was made of. There was just one creepy fly in this ointment: At the time, Soraya was only just finishing up school and was still a painfully young teenager.
  3. Soraya was the wife of the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, for seven years before their divorce in 1958. She faced pressure, illness, exile, loss and depression in her life, but was remembered for her beauty, charity and style.

  4. Apr 13, 2017 · Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari never imagined that one day she would marry Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and that she would reign over her country, Iran. She was queen for seven years, from 1951 to 1958.

  5. Mar 13, 2018 · Born on 22 June 1932 in the English Missionary Hospital in Isfahan, Iran, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was the elder child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary and his German wife, Eva Karl. Soraya was introduced to the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1948. The Shah had recently divorced his first wife, Princess Fawzia of Egypt.

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