Word: soraya
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Ever since he reluctantly divorced Queen Soraya in 1958, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, has been window-shopping through Europe. In his search for a new bride who would present him with a son and heir, the Shah's wandering eye was caught by Italy's pretty Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, 19. But the Vatican, all Italy, and the girl herself proved unalterably opposed to the marriage. Last week his capital of Teheran was alive with signs that the Shah had found both happiness and the bride he wanted in his own country...
...champagne, slipped a jeweled ring on Ana's finger. Then Baby flew off to Rome. The gossip that bounced back might have shaken a less eternal love: Baby arm in arm with Princess Doris Pignatelli. Baby dating Actress Rosanna Schiaffino. Baby dispatching red roses to former Queen Soraya of Iran. Baby dancing with his ex-wife Mimosa. Back in Rio, Baby found Ana Maria full of doubts, but he smothered her in flowers and loving attention. Last week Baby even set a wedding date of sorts-some time...
Dolled up to the royal nines, glowing, velvet-eyed Princess Soraya, 26, ex-wife of Iran's Shah, paid a formal call on the proud old Roman family of the man whom the gossipists keep saying she will marry: handsome, unwealthy Prince Raimondo Orsini, 27. But Vatican and Iranian court circles frown on the romance, and Raimondo's low income seems no match for Soraya's high tastes. The betting of Romans in the know: no wedding...
...violins softly playing-mixed butter into the long noodles with a gold fork and spoon given to him by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine in the world," says Sinclair Lewis Socialite Lucille McKelvey, but the remark passes several noodle-lengths over the head of George Babbitt, who answers...
...Iranian mother. But court circles suggested that this explicit injunction might not be interpreted too rigidly, as long as Princess Ella allowed her children to be raised as Moslems. At week's end the Shah's matchmaking sister, Princess Chams, who arranged his earlier marriage to Soraya, was in Geneva, ostensibly for sinus treatment but presumably ready, willing and able to conduct further negotiations between the Peacock Throne and the House of Savoy. As for tall, irenic Princess Gabriella in her villa bedroom filled with toy stuffed animals -like many a lovely princess before her. she would...