Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary in the picture frame

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Farah Pahlavi was the only woman to have this title. Until then, wives of shahs (including Soraya) bore the title Malake (which is comparable with that of queen), though in the popular press they frequently and incorrectly were called “empress”.

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