Death of HIM The Shah 1980

[sol_anglada]

Hello,
This week marks the 25th anniversary of His Majesty the Shah Reza Pahlavi's death. I invite you to post here all the pictures you have of Him and also the pictures that wil be taken on the occasion of the commemmoration in The Cayro of this sad event.
Sol

[hilal]

See you!
http://www.rezapahlavi.org/father/funeral.html
On www.farahpahlavi.org video files Remembering the Shah.
http://www.aryamehr.org/pic/last/last.htm

[hilal]

1.- 2. Last days at Cairo Hospital.
3.- The Funeral

[hilal]

and Remembering the Shah.

[Lilygal]

Did Princess Shahnaz ever attend the funeral in Cairo?

[hilal]

Sorry

I do not know it.

[grecka]

I am sure Shahnaz attended the funeral. She was, after all, his eldest daughter.

[sol_anglada]

It's curious that this year, very special because is the 25 anniversary of the Shah's death, there are no news about the commemoration of this sad event. Other years we had more pics and information.

Originally Posted by grecka

I am sure Shahnaz attended the funeral. She was, after all, his eldest daughter.

[snow]

thanks for opening this thread, it is a shame that, princess shahnaz has never really been included as a full member of the family, look at the jordanian royal family ,despite being from FOUR different mothers they all show a united front in public.princess shahnaz is briefly and discreetly introduced in both the empress and crown prince's web site, and there is no mention of her children at all, after all they are late shah's grand children too and one must not forget that their blood is thick with royalty since they are also decendants of the egyptian royal family and also qajar royal family too...

[snow]

links to the photos of the 25th anniversary of mohammad reza shah
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/sou...53289564&cdi=0

[snow]

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/sou...53289550&cdi=0

[snow]

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/sou...53289466&cdi=0

[Lilygal]

Originally Posted by snow

thanks for opening this thread, it is a shame that, princess shahnaz has never really been included as a full member of the family, look at the jordanian royal family ,despite being from FOUR different mothers they all show a united front in public.princess shahnaz is briefly and discreetly introduced in both the empress and crown prince's web site, and there is no mention of her children at all, after all they are late shah's grand children too and one must not forget that their blood is thick with royalty since they are also decendants of the egyptian royal family and also qajar royal family too...

Perhaps she does'nt want to be included with the Royal family. she definitely does keep quite a distance form them. Though surprising no mention is made of her at the funeral. And one would think she would atleast visit her own father's grave, perhaps she does this discreetly outside the public eye unlike her step mother and haf siblings.

[Alicky]

When the Reza and Fawzia divorced, Shahnaz had to stay in Iran and rarely saw her mother from then on out(once or twice in Switzerland in later years). Shahnaz was deemed virtually invisible by her father after Fawzia's departure.

As you might expect, she had an extremely dysfunctional and emotionally neglected childhood, and it carried into her adulthood. She developed heavy drug problems and went through a series of lovers and stormy relationships and a suicide attempt or two. The Shah threatened to disown her many times, only to be talked out of it by officials(most notably C.M. Alan) and Reza married her off for a political alliance. They divorced a few years later.

Eventually Reza got really tired of her and said demanded that she either immediately leave the country, change her lifestyle, get disowned or marry quietly in Switzerland coming back to Iran only when given permission. She picked the third option.

Apparently, she's still in Switzerland with her second husband and children, and now devoutly religious.

[Roshanah]

Originally Posted by Alicky

When the Reza and Fawzia divorced, Shahnaz had to stay in Iran and rarely saw her mother from then on out(once or twice in Switzerland in later years). Shahnaz was deemed virtually invisible by her father after Fawzia's departure.

As you might expect, she had an extremely dysfunctional and emotionally neglected childhood, and it carried into her adulthood. She developed heavy drug problems and went through a series of lovers and stormy relationships and a suicide attempt or two. The Shah threatened to disown her many times, only to be talked out of it by officials(most notably C.M. Alan) and Reza married her off for a political alliance. They divorced a few years later.

Eventually Reza got really tired of her and said demanded that she either immediately leave the country, change her lifestyle, get disowned or marry quietly in Switzerland coming back to Iran only when given permission. She picked the third option.

Apparently, she's still in Switzerland with her second husband and children, and now devoutly religious.

Well done Shahnaz! Good for you! may you have all the happiness that Allah S.W.T. intends for you.:)

[Lilygal]

I also heard that Shahnza changes her name to something more muslim

[Lilygal]

I think Princess Farahnza looks quite ill or maybe she is just very thin.

[cute_girl]

Originally Posted by Alicky

She developed heavy drug problems and went through a series of lovers and stormy relationships and a suicide attempt or two. The Shah threatened to disown her many times, only to be talked out of it by officials(most notably C.M. Alan) and Reza married her off for a political alliance. They divorced a few years later.
Eventually Reza got really tired of her and said demanded that she either immediately leave the country, change her lifestyle, get disowned or marry quietly in Switzerland coming back to Iran only when given permission. She picked the third option.
Apparently, she's still in Switzerland with her second husband and children, and now devoutly religious.

what's the source of this?this is the first time I'm reading such things about her.
for always I've read that from the very begining she was quite religious,and those who were against Shah always appreciated her and wrote to her to complain.she's always described as the only one with clean hands and past in shah's family.
actually she got married too young to be invovled in stormy relationships.she was only 16.

[Alicky]

Where did you hear otherwise? What books did you get to read I mean. (I'd like to expand my Iranian library!) Personally, I don't get to hear a lot about Shahnaz, but everything I've ever read resembles what I wrote. I didn't know she was sixteen when she married, but I didn't say that she had her stormy relationships before she was married anyway.

[cute_girl]

well from various sources...specificaly from book written by General Hussein Fardoost.in his book he talks of a letter mullahs wrote to Shahnaz to complain about shah and his desicions against Islam addressing shahnaz as the only religious royalty who has always paid attention to islamic values and their only hope to make shah attention too and... if there was any rumor about her they wouldnt write such a letter to her.
General Fardoost was shah's most trusted friend.they became friends at the age of six,and were always together through school and all their lives.
the reason why she was pushed behind was the fear Farah had about her past being told,though shahnaz was hurt very much she kept silent about it and when the secret was revealed she only didnt deny it and got divorced.
ps.if shah had any concern about relationships of people in his circle he'd have to sent his sister away who was a famous sex nuts.it's told that every night she slept with a diffrent male star or a sportman.