Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi (b. 1940), daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, and his first wife, Princess Fawzia of Egypt; granddaughter of Queen Tadj ol-Molouk. Remained in Iran after her parents’ divorce and was educated in Belgium and Switzerland. Was married, firstly, to Ardeshir Zahedi, a diplomat, from 1957 to 1964, and secondly, to Khosrow Jahanbani, from 1971 until his death in 2014; has three children. Has resided in Switzerland since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Figure 5.1. Photographer unknown, Princess Shahnaz of Iran, 1967, source: Wikimedia Commons.
1960s
Dress worn to the coronation of the Shah of Iran, 1967
The coronation of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-80), the Shah of Iran and his third wife, Empress Farah (b. 1938), took place on October 26, 1967 at Gulistan Palace in Tehran. A full discussion of Princess Shahnaz’s coronation outfit is available here.
Her-storic Royal Dress 
