Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari

Queen consort of Iran from 1951 to 1958

Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari (1932–2001) was the Queen consort of Iran from 1951 to 1958. She was born in Isa ibn Maryam Hospital on 22 June 1932. She died in Paris on 26 October 2001, at the age of 69.

Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari held office as Consort of Iran (1951–1958).

Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari received Order of Isabella the Catholic, Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1955) and Order of the Pleiades. She was elected to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Soraya.

Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari was the daughter of Khalil Esfandiary Bakhtiary and Eva Karl. She married Mohammad Reza I of Iran. She is recorded as following the Catholic Church. The recorded cause of death is stroke.

Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari is covered in 44 language editions of Wikipedia, a rough measure of how far the name has carried beyond Iran.

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