Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary
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Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen of Iran from 1951 to 1958. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she wa
Soraya in 1953
Soraya in childhood with her mother, c. 1935
Wedding in 1951
Soraya and the Shah in 1953
Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary
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Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, was an Iranian politician and diplomat who served as Iran's Ambassador to West Germany from 1952 to 1961. He was the father of Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, the second wife
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary
…film director Franco Indovina, Soraya lived with her brother in Paris until her death. Soraya was the elder of two children and the only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1901–1983), a Bakhtiari nobleman and Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s, and his Russian-born German wife Eva Karl (1906–1994). She was…
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