Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary

✶June 22, 1932

†October 26, 2001

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About their life

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen of Iran from 1951 to 1958. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she was infertile. In March 1958, their divorce was announced. After a brief career as an actress, and a liaison with Italian film director Franco Indovina, Soraya lived with her brother in Paris until her death.

Queen consort of Iran from 1951 to 1958

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Biography from the article Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.