Unseen photos of Ashraf Pahlavi


In the early 1930s, Ashraf Pahlavi, her older sister Shams, and their mother were among the first significant persian women to cease wearing the traditional veil.Ashraf Pahlavi was not permitted to attend university and instead was married in 1937, at the age of 18, to Mirza Khan Ghavam, whose family was politically allied with her father.