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Pensive Thought. Another melancholy man turned up last year as a possible suitor: the hawk-nosed, greying Shah of Iran, 39, able and conscientious, divorced from his Queen Soraya and badly needing a son for his heirless kingdom. Attracted by published pictures of Princess Ella, he went to Geneva ostensibly for dental care, was a dinner guest at the sprawling Merlinge villa where Ella lives with ex-Queen Marie José. After the Shah departed, the Italian press clamored so loudly that lovely Ella again visited her native land. At a press conference, after some pensive thought, she told reporters...
...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 a son. But her photograph is still prominently displayed in the palace in Teheran...
...dual time on a surfboard. After 30 minutes of instruction and two dunkings, the Shah triumphantly soloed 100 ft. through the briny to earn a small tribute from teacher: "A natural surfer." Back at his pine-shaded palace in Teheran, the Shah had earlier discussed his divorce from Princess Soraya, a water-ski student on her recent Bermuda trip, with a TIME correspondent: "It's the sort of tragedy that always waits around the corner for a man who puts his public life first. We were so close. I tried to appoint a crown prince, but everybody wanted somebody...
...eyed, wistful Princess Soraya Esfandiari Bakhtiari, 25, divorced wife of Iran's Shah, arrived in Manhattan aboard the liner Constitution, hoping for privacy, found instead some 125 press and TV reporters at dockside to welcome her. With eager local newsmen breathlessly reporting every other step, the shapely princess shopped on Fifth Avenue, dined at East Side nightspots, at week's end sailed off for some Bermuda sun-and probably some Bermuda privacy as well...
...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, possibly to South America...