Fatemeh Pahlavi

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Fatimeh Pahlavi
Born30 October 1928
Tehran, Iran
Died2 June 1987(1987-06-02) (aged 58)
London, United Kingdom
Spouse
Vincent Lee Hillyer
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(m. 1948; div. 1959)​

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(m. 1960; died 1975)​
IssuePrince Kayvan Hillyer
Princess Rana Hillyer
Prince Dariush Hillyer
Prince Kambiz Khatami
Prince Ramin Khatami
Princess Pari Khatami
HousePahlavi
FatherReza Shah
MotherEsmat Dowlatshahi

Fatemeh Pahlavi (Persian: فاطمه پهلوی; 30 October 1928 – 2 June 1987) was Reza Shah Pahlavi's tenth child and half-sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. She was a member of the Pahlavi dynasty.

Early life and education

Fatimeh Pahlavi was born in Tehran on 30 October 1928.[1][2] She was the tenth child of Reza Shah and his fourth and last wife, Esmat Dowlatshahi.[3][4] Her mother was from the Qajar dynasty[citation needed] and married Reza Shah in 1923.[5] Fatimeh was the full-sister of Abdul Reza Pahlavi, Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi and Hamid Reza Pahlavi.[6]

She and her brothers lived at Marble palace in Tehran with their parents.[4] She attended Anoushiravan Dadgar Girls' School in Tehran.[citation needed]

Activities

Young Princess Fatimeh

During the reign of her half-brother, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Fatimeh Pahlavi owned a bowling club and dealt with business, having shares in the firms involved in construction, vegetable oil production and engineering.[7] She also had a fortune of some $500 million during that time.[8] Her fortune was a result of "commissions" extracted from military contractors by her second husband, Khatami.[8] Pahlavi also involved in activities concerning higher education in Iran.[9]

Personal life

Fatimeh Pahlavi married twice. She married Vincent Lee Hillyer (1924 – 7 July 1999) in a civil ceremony in Civitavecchia, Italy, on 13 April 1950.[3] Hillyer converted to Islam.[3] On 10 May they wed in a religious ceremony at Iran's embassy in Paris.[3][10] Hillyer was a friend of her brother Abdul Reza Pahlavi.[11] Fatimeh and Hillyer met in Iran during the latter's visit to the country.[citation needed] The marriage was not fully endorsed by Shah Mohammad Reza,[12] probably due to negative reactions in Iran.[13] They had three children, two sons, Kayvan and Dariush, and one daughter, Rana, who died in an accidental fall in infancy in 1954.[14] They divorced in September 1959.[15][16]

After divorcing Hillyer, she married Mohammad Amir Khatami, the commanding general of Iran's air force, on 22 November 1959.[16][17] The shah and his then fiancée Farah Diba attended the wedding ceremony.[16]

They had two sons, Kambiz (born 1961) and Ramin (born 1967), and a daughter, Pari (born 1962).[18] Pahlavi left Iran before the 1979 revolution.[13] During her last years, she was living in London.[19]

During the reign of the Shah, she wore the Sunburst Tiara and was the first and only known person to have worn it.[citation needed]

Death

Pahlavi died at the age of 58 in London on 2 June 1987.[2][19] She was survived by her four sons.[19]

Honours

National

Foreign

References

  1. ^ "Iranian princess dies at age 58". The Lewiston Journal. 2 June 1987. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Princess Fatimeh Pahlavi". Associated Press. London. 2 June 1987. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d "Shah of Iran's half-sister dies". Rome News Tribune. 2 June 1987. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  4. ^ a b Diana Childress (2011). Equal Rights Is Our Minimum Demand: The Women's Rights Movement in Iran 2005. Twenty-First Century Books. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-7613-7273-8. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  5. ^ Gholam Reza Afkhami (13 December 2008). The Life and Times of the Shah. University of California Press. p. 605. ISBN 978-0-520-94216-5. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Reza Shah Pahlavi". Iran Chamber Society. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  7. ^ "105 Iranian firms said controlled by royal family". The Leader Post. Tehran. AP. 22 January 1979. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  8. ^ a b Harris, David (2005). "Buying Loyalty in Iran" (PDF). The Long Term View. 6 (3): 88–96. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  9. ^ Edgar Burke Inlow (1 January 1979). Shahanshah: The Study of Monarchy of Iran. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 91. ISBN 978-81-208-2292-4. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  10. ^ "Iran. Part II (1950–1955)" (PDF). Iranian Hotline. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  11. ^ Ali Akbar Dareini (1 January 1999). The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty: Memoirs of Former General Hussein Fardust. Motilal Banarsidass Publications. p. 123. ISBN 978-81-208-1642-8. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  12. ^ "Half sister of the late Shah". Orlando Sentinel. 3 June 1987. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  13. ^ a b (ed.) Gholamali Haddad Adel, Mohammad Jafar Elmi, Hassan Taromi-Rad (1 October 2012). Pahlavi Dynasty: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. MIU Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-908433-01-5. Retrieved 8 April 2013. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Shah of Iran's half-sister dies". Rome News-Tribune. 2 June 1987. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  15. ^ "US aided in ouster of Shah". St. Joseph News Press. AP. 9 August 1980. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  16. ^ a b c "Shah engaged". Toledo Blade. 23 November 1960. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  17. ^ Abbas Milani (2008). Eminent Persians: The Men and Women who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979: in Two Volumes. Syracuse University Press. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-8156-0907-0. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  18. ^ Hadidi, Ebrahim. "Field Martial Mohammad Khatami". Institute for Iranian History. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  19. ^ a b c "Fatemeh Pahlevi Dies at 58, A Half Sister to Shah of Iran". The New York Times. AP. 3 June 1987. Retrieved 4 November 2012.

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