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Feb 13, 2023 · 73 years ago, on 12 February 1951, two days before the most romantic day of the modern calendar, the Shah of Iran married Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari at the Golestan Palace in Tehran. Just seven years later, in 1958, the couple divorced and Soraya would inherit the epithet ‘the princess with the sad eyes’.
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (Persian: ثریا اسفندیاری بختیاری, romanized: Sorayâ Esfandiâri-Baxtiâri; 22 June 1932 – 25 October 2001) was Queen of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whom she married in 1951. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that she was infertile.
Apr 13, 2017 · One of the many royals featured in its pages is Princess Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari, the second wife of a former shah of Iran.
BAKHTIARI, Soraya Esfandiari 1932-2001 PERSONAL: Born June 22, 1932, in Isfahan, Iran; died October, 2001, in Paris, France; daughter of Khalil Esfandiari and Eva (Karl) Bakhtiari; married Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (former shah of Iran), February 12, 1951 (divorced, 1958); companion of Franco Indovina (a film director; deceased).
Jan 7, 2024 · After seven years of marriage, Queen Soraya and the Shah faced a distressing reality: she was infertile. She hadn't borne a child, forget a male heir. Even extensive medical checkups confirmed her inability to bear a child.
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Aug 20, 2017 · Text by Brittani Barger Born on 22 June 1932 in the English Missionary Hospital in Isfahan, Iran, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was the elder child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary and his German wife, Eva Karl. Soraya was introduced to the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, in 1948.
