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...their belated respects. On top of things again, the Shah refused to see the charge d'affaires who had snubbed him; later the Shah had him fired. Next morning, the Shah slipped out to a jeweler's and selected a variety of diamond baubles for Soraya. This was a consolation gift for her agreeing to remain a while in Rome for her "health." Then he boarded a chartered K.L.M. airliner for Bagdad, where he put on his gold-braided air marshal's uniform (specially flown from Teheran). He piloted his own twin-engined Beechcraft on the final...
...QUEEN SORAYA: IRANIANS LIKE A HOEBODY WIFE
...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...
...young royal couple get along fine together. High strung, she does not enjoy queenly functions, preferring to be alone with her husband. She has taken up his favorite sports, horseback riding and skiing. Soraya loves expensive clothes, has lots of them, wears them well. Iranians like their women to stay quietly in the background; she is therefore popular. So far the Shah and his wife have no children...
...Lunch. When the Shah and Queen Soraya first arrived in Rome, Ehrman was the only newsman admitted to see them in the airport waiting room; the Italian police took him for an Iranian. Next day Ehrman reserved a lunch table close to the Shah's in the dining room of the Excelsior Hotel, arranged to get telephone bulletins from the A.P.'s office. When the news of Mossadegh's fall came in, Ehrman bounded past the waiters blocking his path, informed the Shah that he was still really in power, was rewarded by the Shah...