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First leaked last April, the news was made official last week by Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi that his only child, early-ripening Princess Shanaz, 16, daughter by the Shah's first wife (Egypt's Princess Fawzia, divorced by the Shah in 1948 for her failure to bear him a son), will soon be married. Her fiancé: U.S.educated (University of Utah) Ardashir Zahedi, 28, son of Iran's ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi who, after helping to boot weepy old Mohammed Mossadegh from the premiership in 1953, was later himself edged out by the Shah...
...Switzerland, fat, sad ex-King Farouk of Egypt, who still cherishes the notion that he was a benign despot, succeeded in looking like a benign father. His three daughters (Ferial, Fadia, Fawzia) are by Farida, his first wife, who in three tries bore him no male heirs. At his knee, Farouk fondly held Prince Ahmed Fuad II, 3, a winsome lad and sole product of his second queen, Narriman Sadek...
...problem of parenthood is worrisome for the Shah. In 1948, after nine years, he divorced Princess Fawzia, the astonishingly beautiful sister of Egypt's ex-King Farouk. Fawzia had no son, and Princess Shahnaz, the only child of that marriage, is barred from succession by Iranian law. Since the death of the Shah's brother, Prince Ali Reza, in a plane crash last month (TIME, Nov. 15), there is no heir to the Peacock Throne of Persia...
...first wife (whom he divorced after nine years, one daughter, and no son) was Farouk's handsome sister Fawzia. The 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...
...second wife. The first, Egyptian Princess Fawzia, was Farouk's sister; he divorced her in 1948 for failure to bear...