Farah Pahlavi

Queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979

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Born 1938 · age 88

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Born 1938
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A Night at the Opera
2020

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Updated 2026-09-01

The last empress of Iran, married to the Shah in 1959 and swept into exile two decades later when revolution closed in. Since 1979, she's lived abroad — watching from Paris and the U.S. as the country she fled convulses, and speaking out for protesters facing the regime that drove her family out.

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Born into a prosperous Iranian family on 14 October 1938, Farah Diba's fortunes dimmed after her father's early death. While studying architecture in Paris, she met Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at the Iranian embassy; they married in December 1959. The Shah's first two marriages had produced no male heir, so the birth of Crown Prince Reza in October 1960 set off celebrations. As empress, she founded charities, established Shiraz University — Iran's first American-style institution — and pushed to bring Iranian antiquities home from foreign museums. By 1978, widening inequality ignited unrest that tip…

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Farah Pahlavi

said1 Aug 2012

I have always been fascinated with the arts.

— Former queen of Iran on assembling Tehran's art collection, The Guardian, (August 1, 2012).

Farah Pahlavi

said1 Aug 2012

I follow the works of Iranian artists even now, sometimes in Paris or in New York and I am happy Iranian artists are still great.

— Former queen of Iran on assembling Tehran's art collection, The Guardian, (August 1, 2012).

Farah Pahlavi

said1 Aug 2012

The picture of today's Iran in the world is terrible, comparing the past and now.

— Former queen of Iran on assembling Tehran's art collection, The Guardian, (August 1, 2012).

Farah Pahlavi

said27 Jul 2010

I try to forget about the bitter past as I [also] recommend for my fellow countrymen. I do not live in the past, I live in the present, always hoping for a brighter future.

— Interview: Farah Pahlavi Recalls 30 Years In Exile, Radio Free Europe, (July 27, 2010).

Farah Pahlavi

said27 Jul 2010