As Americans react to the U.S. air strikes on Iran this weekend, there's renewed attention on Iran's rulers, past and present. The royal family of Iran has roots in southern Connecticut, and Farah ...

The Shah of Iran with his third wife, Empress Farah Diba, and their son Crown Prince Reza.

Farah Diba's iconic fashion sense tried to stitch together Iran’s imperial past with a modern future. After the revolution, her memory still lingers as a symbol of what their country could have been.

EXCLUSIVE: French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef (More Than Ever, The Stranger In Me) is attached to direct the untitled feature film project centered on the life of Farah Pahlavi, the last Empress ...

Emily Atef has been tapped to direct a feature film about Farah Pahlavi, Last Empress of Iran.

After the Shah’s mother gave a party in her honor last week, Farah Diba was escorted to the Teheran airport next morning by palace guards in civilian clothes, boarded an airliner for Geneva and ...

LAHORE: Coordinator to Prime Minister on Culture and National Heritage Farah Diba visited the renowned director Altaf Hussain at his residence to inquire after his health. On the occasion, she ...

Farah Diba had succeeded where two before her had failed. The Shah’s first wife, Fawzia, sister of Egypt’s then King Farouk, bore him a daughter but no son, and he divorced her in 1948.

In 1959, her grandfather Mohammad Reza Shah - the last Shah of Iran - had a lavishly memorable wedding to the 21-year-old Farah Diba, while he was 40.

AP Photo In 1959, the Shah married Farah Diba. They welcomed four children, though none would get the opportunity to become an heir because of the revolution.