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Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi told a nationwide radio audience to go ahead and celebrate the country's New Year without him: "I am sorry not to be able to personally participate in the rejoicing of my nation on this festive occasion. In order to ensure the future of the country and to safeguard the hereditary monarchy, I was constrained to part with my dear spouse, who during difficult times in the past seven years ever shared my sorrows . . ." In Cologne, ex-Queen Soraya, a divorcee because she bore no children (TIME, March 24), planned a trip...
...government offices and theaters all over Teheran last week, Queen Soraya's pictures were being taken down. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi had reluctantly and sadly given in to his court advisers and ended their seven-year marriage by royal proclamation...
Divorced. By Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 38, Shah of Iran: Soraya, 25, his Queen; in Teheran (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...bright morning last month, a procession of elderly courtiers and politicians trooped into Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's palace to discuss "crucial matters which have vital importance for the future of the monarchy." The "matters" boiled down to one: the failure of beautiful, 25-year-old Queen Soraya to produce an heir in seven years of marriage...
Married. Princess Shahnaz, 17, green-eyed daughter and only child of Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (by his first wife, Egypt's Princess Fawzia, sister of ex-King Farouk); and Ardashir Zahedi, 28, U.S.-educated agricultural engineer, son of ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi (who helped to boot out weepy Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 and was later himself edged out on charges of corruption); in Teheran's Royal Palace...