Queen soraya pahlavi wedding
Queen soraya pahlavi wedding ring.
Queen soraya pahlavi wedding
Princess Soraya’s Sunburst Tiara
| Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary on their wedding day, 1951 (Wikimedia Commons) |
This Saturday’s sparkler takes us back to the ultra-glam days of the public face of the Iranian monarchy in the 1950s.
Here’s a look at the diamond and emerald sunburst tiara worn by Princess Soraya, a queen-turned-movie star.
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was the second wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.
Their whirlwind romance was arranged by the Shah’s sister, Princess Shams, who met Soraya in London. The teenaged Soraya, daughter of an Iranian diplomat and his German wife, went to Tehran and was engaged to the Shah within days.
Queen soraya pahlavi wedding photos
He presented her with a 22 carat diamond engagement ring.
| AFP/Getty Images |
The wedding was scheduled for December 1950, but Soraya suddenly became ill.
It was typhoid. The illness left her so weak that, when the wedding went ahead in February 1951, Sora