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...Shah asked his older sister, Princess Chams, to find him a new wife, and the princess began a search that spread to Europe. A friend one day suggested an Iranian girl to the princess, followed it up by bringing along her photo. The girl was 19-year-old Soraya Esfandiari, the beautiful commoner daughter of a chief of the powerful Bakhtiari tribe. The Shah looked, said: "If Soraya is as good as her pictures, I'll take her." The princess met Soraya in Paris, sent back glowing reports. They were married in February...
Married. His Imperial Majesty, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, 31, Shahinshah (King of Kings) of Iran, and Soraya Esfandiari, 18, Europe-schooled daughter of a chief of the proud Bakhtiari tribe by his German wife; in glittering Marmar Palace, Teheran, Iran. Wearing a Dior silver lamé gown with 6,000 diamonds, the bride rode to the simple ceremony in a gold-trimmed Rolls-Royce. The Shah ordered festivities limited to one day, food distributed to the poor. Among the wedding gifts: a $1,500 crystal bowl from Harry Truman, a mink coat (reported value: $150,000) from Joseph Stalin...
...money meets few obstacles, but her love of power recently received a setback when the Shah asked his other sister, Princess Chams, to pick a bride for him. Princess Chams is retiring and sweet, the exact opposite of Princess Ashraf. The latter was enraged when Chams chose Soraya Esfandiari, daughter of a chief of the powerful Bakhtiari tribe, to be the Shah's second wife. (He divorced his first, the beautiful Fawzia, a sister of Egypt's unbeautiful King Farouk, partly because she did not produce a son.) The Shah and Soraya (whose mother was German) were...
After war jitters had caused Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, to discourage presents and cancel plans for lavish wedding parties this week, his fiancée, Soraya Esfandiari, recovering from typhoid, came down with the grippe and the wedding itself was postponed for a month...