Word: shahnaz
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...prose of 200 correspondents-mostly French and Italian-who flew in from the Continent to give breathless coverage of the wedding, the need to provide a male successor to the Peacock Throne was the overriding consideration in the marriage. It was the Shah's own grown daughter, Princess Shahnaz, who spotted Farah as a likely candidate-an aristocratic young Iranian beauty who was studying art in Paris (TIME, Nov. 2). When the Shah took Farah up in his private jet plane over Teheran, the French press eagerly told of how he whispered "Je t'aime," but the Shah...
Born. To Princess Shahnaz, 18, daughter of Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (by his first wife, Princess Fawzia, sister of ex-King Farouk of Egypt), and Ardashir Zahedi, 29, Utah-educated agricultural engineer, son of ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi: their first child, a daughter; in Teheran. Name: Princess Zahra Mahnaz. Weight...
...week's end the Shah planned to journey north from Italy to Switzerland, where two prominent Iranians are often to be found. One is his daughter Shahnaz (by his first marriage to Egypt's Princess Fawzia), but she had just left Lausanne for home, accompanied by a Swiss gynecologist. She is expecting a child, and the Shah insisted that it be born in Iran-if it is a son, he might be heir to the Iranian throne. The other is his handsome second wife, Soraya, whom he divorced because she had not provided him with...
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...
...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...