Farah Pahlavi
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Farah Pahlavi is a member of the Pahlavi dynasty. She is the last queen and empress of Iran, and is the third wife and widow of the last shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Official portrait, c. 1973
Farah (on the left) with Iranian Boy Scouts in Paris, (c. 1956)
Farah Pahlavi in 1959
Farah and Mohammad Reza with their four children, 1973
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 to 1979. He succeeded his father Reza Shah and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until he was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution le
Farah Pahlavi
…member of the Pahlavi dynasty. She is the last queen and empress (شهبانو, Shahbânu) of Iran, and is the third wife and widow of the last shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. She was born into a prosperous Iranian family whose fortunes were diminished after her father's early death. While studying architecture in Paris, she…
Official portrait, c. 1973
Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, c. 1926
Mohammad Reza entering Madrasa Nezam, a military school in Tehran, 1938
Photograph of the wedding ceremony of Crown Prince Mohammad Reza (right) and Princess Fawzia of Egypt at Abdeen Palace in Cairo, 1939