Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary married the Shah of Iran at 19 and became the world’s most glamorous empress. TIME called her beauty legendary; Paris and Rome adored her. But when doctors revealed she could not bear children, her crown became a cage. In 1958, she was exiled—losing her husband, her title, and her homeland. She lived decades in elegance and solitude, a queen without a throne. The dynasty she sacrificed everything for collapsed anyway. Soraya’s story reminds us: a woman’s worth is neve
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MONARQUE ABSOLU. C'était un roi sans ami. Dans sa résidence privée sur les hauteurs de Téhéran, le Shah d'Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, dévoile à Léon Zitrone un bout d'intimité, et révèle sa solitude. C'était en 1977, il sera renversé deux ans plus tard. | INA
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