Biography of Princess Iran
Youth and education of Sorai was the eldest child and the only daughter of Halil Isfandiyari, the noble Bakhtiari and Iran’s ambassador to Germany from for the year, and his wife, German-Berlin Eva Karl, born in Moscow and the initially former trading, whose grandfather was once engaged in the improvement of Russian weapons. Her parents met during the training of Khalil in Berlin.
She was born in the English missionary hospital in Isfhan on June 22. Subsequently, the son of Bijan was born in the Khalil family, her younger brother, the members of the Isfandiyari family, had long held positions in the government and diplomatic corps of Persia, as Iran was called up to a year. Her uncle, Sardar Assad, was the leader of the Iranian constitutionalist movement at the beginning of the 20th century.
Until eight months, Soraya and her family lived in Isfahan, then her father went to the diplomatic service in Germany. Sorai's early childhood, thus, took place in Berlin, her family returned to Iran only in the fall of the year. Until a year, she studied at a German school in Iran, where, in particular, she studied the Persian language. But when, after the occupation of Iran by the Soviet and British troops in August-September, all German schools in the country were closed, she had to interrupt her education.
In the year, she entered the English missionary school, in the year went to continue her studies in Switzerland, where she learned to speak French freely, and later studied English in London. As a result, she spoke freely in German, English, French and Persian. At that time, Joraia graduated from the Institute of Noble Maidens in Switzerland and studied English in London. They were soon engaged: the shah gave her a wedding ring with diamonds weighing 22.37 carats 4, Soraya was combined with a marriage with a shah in the marble palace in Tehran on February 12.
Initially, the couple planned to get married on December 27, but the ceremony was postponed in connection with the disease of the abdominal cavity at the bride. Although the Shah announced that the guests at the wedding should donate money to a special charity fund for Iranian poor people, among the wedding gifts were a mink coat and a desktop phone with black diamonds sent by Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, a bowl from Shtebensky porcelain, created by the US President Harry Truman and his wife, and silver.
Camera of the Georgian era from the king of Great Britain George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The room where the ceremony was held decorated one and a half tons of orchids, tulips and cloves sent by an airplane from the Netherlands. Entertainment at the ceremony included the performance of an equestrian circus from Rome. The bride was dressed in a silver dress of llama, decorated with pearls and trimmed with feathers of Marabu, made on this occasion personally Christian Dior, as well as in a full -bodied female cap of white mink fur.
After marriage, Soraiy headed the charity association in Iran. Contrary to common rumors, she had a good relationship with Sister Shah Ashraf. Infertility and divorce, although the wedding took place during heavy snowfall, which was considered a good sign, the marriage of the crowned couple broke up at the beginning of the year because of the obvious infertility of Sorai, which she tried to treat in Switzerland and France, and Shah’s proposals that he would take his second wife for the birth of the heir.
In the year, the couple traveled to the United States, where a gynecologist named Roosevelt, who subsequently sent the results of the examination and said that he did not find signs of infertility to Tehran, was engaged in a survey of Sorai. Soraya left Iran in February and finally went to the house of her parents in Cologne, Germany, where the Shah sent his wife’s uncle, Senator Sardar Assad Bakhtiary, in early March, to try to convince her to return to Iran, but the trip ended to no avail.
Four days later, it was announced that the monarchy of the couple would divert. This became, according to the summer queen, "sacrificing my own happiness." She later told reporters that her husband had no choice but to divorce her. The newspaper headings about the divorce inspired the French author of the songs of Francois Malle-Yoris to write a hit who became a hit pop-song Je Veux Pleurer Comme Soraya "I want to cry like a Soraya." The marriage was officially terminated on April 6.
According to the article in The New York Times, the divorce was preceded by long negotiations, during which the Queen of Sorai tried to convince her husband to take his second wife. The queen, however, referring to what she called the "holiness of marriage", said that "she could not accept the idea of sharing her husband's love with another woman." In the appeal to the Iranian people directed from the house of her parents in Germany, Sorai said: “Since his imperial Majesty Mohammad Reza [in the original] Pahlyvi found it necessary that the heir to the throne should be a direct descendant of a male line from generation to generation, I, with my deepest regret, in the interests of the future state and the welfare of the people in accordance with the desire of His Majesty The emperor should sacrifice his own happiness, and I announce my consent with a break with his imperial majesty.
” After the divorce, the shah, who told the journalist who asked his feelings for the former queen that “no one could bear the torch longer than me,” declared his interest in marriage to Princess Maria Gabrielle Savoy, the daughter of the overthrown Italian king Umberto II. The career of the actress retaining the royal title of Princess Iran after the divorce, Sorai went to Germany, where she had short novels with actor Maximilian Shelle and the heir to the industrial empire and photographer Gunter Saks and lived in Munich for a short period of time.
She often stayed at the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten hotel, remembering him by her state visit to Germany in the year later she moved to France, and then to Italy, where, trying to cope with the caused divorce of sadness, made friends with famous film actors and directors. Princess Soraya herself had a brief career as a film actress, during which she used only her name Soraya.
It was originally announced that she would play the role of Catherine the Great in the film about the Russian Empress Dino de Laurentis, but this project fell apart. Instead, she starred in the year in the Italian film I Tre Volti “Three Persons” and became the roommate of the Italian director of this film Franco Indovin - she also appeared as a character named Soraya in the film “She”.
Indovina died in a plane crash at the age of 39 years a year, when Sorai went to Germany to visit her parents. He was buried in Sicily. After his death, Sorai spent the rest of her life on traveling in Europe and suffering with depression, which she spoke about in her memoirs of the year, Le Palais des Solitudes “The Palace of Loneliness”. She rarely appeared on international jetset, almost did not give an interview.
She was sometimes present at public events, such as parties arranged by De Laroshfuko. Her friend and organizer of various events Massimo Gargia tried to cheer her up and arranged her meetings with young people. She was a regular client of the hairdresser Alexander Zuari. Soraya was often accompanied by her former maid of honor and faithful friend Madame Firuzabadian Shamrizad. Her other friend was the Parisian secular lioness Lily Claire Sarran.
Princess Sorai did not communicate with the third wife of Shah, the Farah Diba, even when both of them lived in Paris, Shah was there after the overthrow of the monarchy in Iran as a result of the Islamic revolution. The death of Princess Soraya died on October 26 from undisclosed causes according to some reports - from a stroke in her apartment in Paris, France; She was 69 years old.
Upon learning of her death, her younger brother, Bijan, sadly said: “After her death, I have no one left with whom to talk.” Bijan died a week later. After the funeral service in the American Cathedral in Paris on November 6, Soraiya, after leaving Iran, went to Catholicism, in which Princess Ashraf Pekhlevi took part, Prince Goma Reza Pekhlevi, Henri Orleans with his wife, Victor Emmanuel Savoy with his wife, Prince Michelle and Prince Ira von Fürstenberg, she was buried in the sector of the Westfradehof cemetery in Munich, Germany, next to her parents and his brother who died later.
After the death of Sorai, several women appeared, claiming that they were her illegitimate daughter, who was reported, born in the year, according to the Persian -speaking weekly Nimrooz; The claims of none of them were confirmed. One newspaper in the year published an article in which, without any evidence, it was assumed that Princess Sorai and her brother were killed. Soon, these inscriptions were cleaned from the grave, but their photographs were published in many European media.
According to the will of Sorai, its property was to be sold at the auction, while the cash funds received from the sale of property at the auction, she bequeathed to the French branch of the Red Cross, the French society occupied by care of children with disabilities, and the Parisian Society for the Protection of Homeless Dogs. Most of the things of the former queen were sold at auction in Paris in the year for more than $ 8.3 million.
Her wedding dress from Dior was sold for 1.2 million dollars.Her Majesty Iran - Her Imperial Highness Princess Sorai Iranian - although the title of her husband, shahinshah kings of the kings, is the equivalent of the emperor, only in the year the special female title of the Empire Equivalent appeared to call the spouse of Shah. Farah Pahlavi, thus, was the only woman who wore this title.
Until that time, the wives of Shakhov, including Soraya, wore the title of Malac, which is comparable to the queen's title, although in the press they were often incorrectly called the "empress." After the divorce, Sorai ceased to be a queen, but a day later she received the personal title and appeal "her imperial highness Princess Soraya Iranian." Memoirs of Princess Sorai wrote two books of memoirs.
The French florist Francois Meilan deduced the sunflower variety, which he called the "Empress Soraya" in honor of the former queen. The Italian-German television movie about the life of the princess, Soraya another name-Sad Princess, was broadcast in the year, the main role of Sorai was played by Anna Valle Miss Italy, Erol Sander played the role of Shah. The French actress Matilda May played the role of sister Shah, Princess Shams Pahlavi in this film.
Inheritance the size of the inheritance is the exact size of the state of the former Queen Iran remains unclear.
The cost of real estate belonging to the Sorai is believed to be from 40 to 50 million euros. In the year, Christie’s auction house in London was put up for sale by some jewelry that belonged to her. According to some reports, only one of its diamond ring was sold for the amount of about millions of euros. In the Civil Court of Cologne, on November 5, a new case began to considerate the inheritance of the deceased queen.
This court must establish whether any of them is her “legal heir”. An argument was expressed that Sorai Isfandiyari herself, as an heir to her property, allegedly indicated her younger brother Bijan. But Bijan Isfandari died just a few days after the death of his sister of Sorai in the year. After his death, a certain man, who called his “secretary and driver”, claimed that Bijan wrote a testament 15 minutes before his death, where he declared him as his only heir.
According to him, the inheritance of Sorai should remain in her family. According to Parisher, “it is unfair to assign someone else's wealth. I think this money will be able to really help people. ” On July 15, the trial of the German court ruled that the Isfandari-Bakhtiari Sorai had a total value of six million dollars, which should be distributed between three French charitable organizations.
These organizations, the French Red Cross, the Society for the Protection of Homeless Dogs and the organization to support children with disabilities in France, will have to inherit the equal shares of Isfandari property, estimated at four million five thousand euros of six million hundred thousand dollars. It was also found that ten years before her death, she bequeathed her property, including jewelry and furniture from her house in Paris, a charity auction in favor of three of these organizations, provided that her brother Bijan would not have a legal child.
At the same time, the judges in Cologne confirmed that the brother of Sorai Isfandari died a week after her death, was not married in any case, did not marry in accordance with the laws of Germany and had no children. Source: Wikipedia.