Word: soraya
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...problems but domestic ones. Though his father sired four daughters and seven sons, the Shah still has no male heir to his throne. In 1948, after she had borne him one daughter, he divorced Egypt's Fawzia and three years later married the handsome half-German, half-Iranian Soraya. Despite Soraya's famed fiery temper, it was with regret that the Shah divorced her in 1958, apparently convinced that she was barren -a charge that makes Soraya angry...
...required reading on casting couches from Berlin to Bel Air. As he travels to the world's watering holes frequented by celebrities, he keeps forked tongue in cheek. In St. Anton, Austria, a ski resort, he wrote of the Shah of Iran's exwife: "On the slopes, Soraya still behaved like a queen, was especially careful not to let any spill mar her majesty. She also refused to queue up at the snack bar. But she had to turn democratic afterward. There was no way of beating the queue in front of the ladies' room...
...provincial capital in southern Iran, and most of the city was asleep. Down in the brick-domed bazaar, a few shopkeepers haggled with farmers over fruits and vegetables to be sold later to housewives. About the only other activity was a gathering of girl students at Soraya School to celebrate National Children's Day and render thanks to Allah and the Shah, in roughly equal measure, for the blessings of a secondary education...
Just when Roman gossips all but had Iran's beautiful ex-Queen Soraya married off to Italy's suave Prince Raimondo Orsini, Soraya, 27, effectively stilled the wagging tongues. With Orsini nowhere in sight, she traipsed off to Switzerland and the courtly attentions of well-to-do German Industrialist Harold von Bohlen und Halbach, 43. In St. Moritz, skiing by day and dancing far into cozy candlelit nights, Soraya and her companion appeared to be verging on a beautiful friend ship. Was it romance? The only clue came from the tall, blondish bachelor, who turned to a lone...
...gave no hint that this was in any way a romantic marriage. Last week, when the police checked to see whether Teheran's shops were displaying a portrait of the Shah, some merchants thriftily dug out a picture of the Shah with his beautiful ex-Queen, the childless Soraya, and at least one found a photograph of him with his first wife, Fawzia (sister of Egypt's King Farouk), who had borne him only a daughter...