Soraya esfandiary-bakhtiari curse

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The Shah had decided that the Bakhtiaris had to be crushed for several reasons. He had settled a sum of money on her in addition to having made several settlements in her favor during the course of their marriage in the form of money as well as land and securities. In the Persian tradition, it is usually believed that the first-born should be a boy.

Two of whom, Goudarz, a keen amateur photographer, and Malekshah were staying at a boarding house near St. James's Park with Bibi Shoakat, Goudarz's mother and attending a language school. Bijan, aided by a companion, traveled by car from Koln a few days earlier. Shams liked her and arranged a meeting with her brother in Paris.

The wedding

Soraya recovered sufficiently for the wedding to take place on the date they had set in February although still very weak and shaky.

Meanwhile, the Shah had appointed Soraya's father ambassador to Germany, a post he cherished even though he did not involve himself with the duties of an ambassador. She was married for a time to Franco Indovina, an Italian director, until his death in a plane crash ended their marriage.

The death of her second husband deeply affected Soraya’s spirit.

The sad end came at 2 PM Thursday 25th of October 2001. Amir Jang, the elder of the family and a Senator was dispatched to see Soraya in order to try and persuade her to agree to the Shah taking a second wife but she refused.

Back to Germany

Soon after Soraya was born, Khalil Khan and Eva decided that the child and Eva should go back to Germany to ensure that the baby would have good health care and return when she was stronger.

They would also ride on horseback and Khalil khan would do some game hunting. Soraya would also write to the Shah through Mr. Alam asking for financial assistance. She is beautiful, very well educated, and has excellent mannerism".⁴At this time the photographs from London also reached Forough Zafar who immediately took them to the Queen Mother who in turn passed them on to the young Shah.

The events that led to the events of 1953 have been well documented and many of the details have now been written about and no need to go through them in this article. After seeing Soraya, Mohammad Reza agreed to marry her. She became fluent in French and learned some English. At the dinner table, Soraya sat next to the Shah and talked about Switzerland and the country around Montreux and Lausanne and her likes and dislikes.

There were a lottery, shooting gallery, sack racing and egg-and-spoon racing. Soraya under advise from her father, had invested well so at the time of the divorce, she had a modest fortune that together with the Shah's final settlement would be enough to enable her to live in comfort.