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Sattareh Farman Farmaian – The social worker Princess (Part two)

Sunday, 9 August 2020, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. After 32 days, she arrived in Los Angeles – now she just needed to reach Ohio. Along with a handful of other passengers who had no one to pick them up, she was taken in by the Red Cross. A friend of her father, Dr Jordan, lived in Pasadena and came [read more]

Iran

Sattareh Farman Farmaian – The social worker Princess (Part one)

Saturday, 8 August 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Sattareh Farman Farmaian was born on 23 December 1921 as the daughter of Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma, a grandson of the Qajar Crown Prince Abbas Mirza, and Massumeh Khanum Tafreshi, the third of his eight wives. She was born in Shiraz, during the dying days of the Qajar dynasty, in present-day Iran. She was the [read more]

Iran

Taj al-Saltana – An unveiled Princess

Thursday, 25 June 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Taj al-Saltana was born in 1884 as the daughter of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, the ruler of Iran, and a minor Princess called Turan al-Saltana. Her parents were also first cousins. Much of what we know about her, she chose to share with us in her memoirs written in 1914. Her early upbringing in the [read more]

Iran

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary – Life after being Queen

Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 7:00 Brittani Barger 0

As the protests against the Iranian government were followed by so many across the globe, we are continuing our series about the female members of the late Shah of Iran’s family. This post will focus on Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, her life after being Queen of Iran. Read more about her life as Queen here. Born on 22 [read more]

Farah Pahlavi

Empress Farah Pahlavi – The widow of the Shah

Saturday, 3 March 2018, 7:00 Brittani Barger 1

Born on 14 October 1938, Empress Farah Pahlavi was the only child of Sohrab Diba and Farideh Diba Ghotbi in Tehran. Less than ten years later, in 1947, she would lose her father at an early age; as Farah was very close to her father, his death deeply troubled her. From this point, she was [read more]

Ashraf Pahlavi

Princess Ashraf Pahlavi – Twin of the Shah

Friday, 23 February 2018, 7:00 Brittani Barger 0

Ashraf ol-Molouk Pahlavi, referred to as Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, was the twin of the late Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. They were born on 26 October 1919 in Tehran, Persia. Ashraf was younger by five hours. They were born to then military commander Reza Pahlavi and Tadj ol-Molouk – two years before the Persian coup d’ état which [read more]

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