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Farah Diba – the name Farah means “joy” in Persian– was a daughter not of the Persian aristocracy but rather Tehran’s middle class. Born in 1938, she was nine when her father, an Imperial persian Army captain, died, and she was raised by her mother, Farideh, “a very serious woman” who struggled financially but managed to send her daughter to private Italian and French schools.
