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...eyed, wistful Princess Soraya Esfandiari Bakhtiari, 25, divorced wife of Iran's Shah, arrived in Manhattan aboard the liner Constitution, hoping for privacy, found instead some 125 press and TV reporters at dockside to welcome her. With eager local newsmen breathlessly reporting every other step, the shapely princess shopped on Fifth Avenue, dined at East Side nightspots, at week's end sailed off for some Bermuda sun-and probably some Bermuda privacy as well...
Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi told a nationwide radio audience to go ahead and celebrate the country's New Year without him: "I am sorry not to be able to personally participate in the rejoicing of my nation on this festive occasion. In order to ensure the future of the country and to safeguard the hereditary monarchy, I was constrained to part with my dear spouse, who during difficult times in the past seven years ever shared my sorrows . . ." In Cologne, ex-Queen Soraya, a divorcee because she bore no children (TIME, March 24), planned a trip...
...week long, the Shah moped, according to courtiers. He had slept little for weeks. Four times he changed the wording of the announcement until it almost seemed as if it were she who was divorcing him. The final announcement was as apologetic as a Shah can be: "The Queen, forgetting her personal feelings as opposed to the nation's good, has made the decision . . . His Imperial Majesty, expressing his utmost regret, has renounced his personal feelings and with regard to the high interests of the nation has decided to end his marriage with Queen Soraya...
...Cologne, where she is visiting her father, the Iranian Ambassador to West Germany, childless Soraya said she was prepared to "sacrifice my own happiness" because the Shah "considers it necessary that the constitutional monarchy be perpetuated through succession to the throne in a direct line of sons from generation to generation." As consolation, ex-Queen Soraya gets a $67,000 settlement, an annual allowance of reportedly $48,000 until she remarries, permanent possession of several million dollars' worth of jewelry bought for her by the Shah, and the honorary title of "Princess" to express the Shah's "appreciation...
Divorced. By Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 38, Shah of Iran: Soraya, 25, his Queen; in Teheran (see FOREIGN NEWS...