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...Shah bought himself four tennis rackets and a pair of black antelope shoes; Soraya bought lingerie and two crocodile handbags and, at a couturier's, ordered a dozen summer frocks. That noon, in the Excelsior dining room, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi began his shrimp cocktail, just another king in exile; by the time he reached his coffee, he was back in business as Shah. A reporter (see PRESS) rushed to his table with the news: "Mossadegh has been overthrown, Your Majesty!" The Shah's jaw dropped; his trembling fingers reached for a cigarette. "Can it be true?" he asked...
...northern Iran, at Ramsar on the Caspian Sea, where he and his pretty Queen were vacationing, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi heard the news of the failure. With Queen Soraya,* he boarded his private twin-engine plane and flew to safety in Bagdad (where he landed unrecognized, asking the name ' of a good hotel). In Teheran, Mossadegh, confined to his iron cot and closely guarded, counted one more obstacle out of his way. Now, though his unhappy country has lost one more source of stability, there was little left to challenge him except the Communist-led mobs, who now sing...
Married. His Imperial Majesty, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, 31, Shahinshah (King of Kings) of Iran, and Soraya Esfandiari, 18, Europe-schooled daughter of a chief of the proud Bakhtiari tribe by his German wife; in glittering Marmar Palace, Teheran, Iran. Wearing a Dior silver lamé gown with 6,000 diamonds, the bride rode to the simple ceremony in a gold-trimmed Rolls-Royce. The Shah ordered festivities limited to one day, food distributed to the poor. Among the wedding gifts: a $1,500 crystal bowl from Harry Truman, a mink coat (reported value: $150,000) from Joseph Stalin...
...love for money meets few obstacles, but her love of power recently received a setback when the Shah asked his other sister, Princess Chams, to pick a bride for him. Princess Chams is retiring and sweet, the exact opposite of Princess Ashraf. The latter was enraged when Chams chose Soraya Esfandiari, daughter of a chief of the powerful Bakhtiari tribe, to be the Shah's second wife. (He divorced his first, the beautiful Fawzia, a sister of Egypt's unbeautiful King Farouk, partly because she did not produce a son.) The Shah and Soraya (whose mother was German...
After war jitters had caused Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, to discourage presents and cancel plans for lavish wedding parties this week, his fiancée, Soraya Esfandiari, recovering from typhoid, came down with the grippe and the wedding itself was postponed for a month...