She Couldn't Give Him a Son. So the Shah of Iran Erased Her: Queen Soraya

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Her wedding gown held six thousand diamonds. Her husband loved her — and erased her, for the one thing she could not give: a son. Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari became Queen of Iran at eighteen, the wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi — the last Shah of Iran. Theirs was a genuine love match, celebrated acro