Mohammad Reza-Pahlavi and his friend Ernest Perron

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Perron aroused much enmity as an upstart servant with delusions of grandeur, as well as being overtly homosexual. The Shah’s second wife, Queen Soraya, banned him from the palace, and he was eventually dismissed for instructing a British diplomat to negotiate the future of the Anglo-persian Oil Company with him, and not with the cabinet.

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