Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (Persian: ثریا اسفندیاری, UniPers: Sorayâ Asfandiyâri) (b. June 22, 1932 – d. October 26, 2001) was the second wife and Queen Consort of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.

Though her husband's title, Shahanshah (King of Kings), is the equivalent of Emperor, it was not until 1967 that a complementary Read more...

Granted the style and title Her Imperial Highness the Princess Soraya of Iran, the former queen moved to France.

Princess Soraya launched a brief career as a film actress, for which she used only her first name. Initially, it was announced that she would portray Catherine the Great in a movie about the Russian empress by Dino De Laurentiis, but that project fell through. Instead, she starred Read more...