Fatemeh Pahlavi

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Fatemeh Pahlavi
Princess Fatemeh Pahlavi.jpg
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)​
IssueKayvan Hillyer
Rana Hillyer
Dariush Hillyer
Kambiz Khatami
Ramin Khatami
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[]

Fatemeh 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 and married Reza Shah in 1923.[5] Fatemeh was the full-sister of Abdul Reza Pahlavi, Ahmad Reza Pahlavi, Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi and Hamid Reza Pahlavi.[6]

She and her brothers lived at Marble palace in Tehran with their parents.[4]

Activities[]

In her youth

During the reign of her half-brother, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Fatemeh 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] and had shares in an Iranian football team, Persopolis.[10]

Personal life[]

Fatemeh 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][11] Hillyer was a friend of her brother Abdul Reza Pahlavi.[12] Fatemeh and Hillyer met in Iran during the latter's visit to the country. The marriage was not fully endorsed by Shah Mohammad Reza,[13] probably due to negative reactions in Iran.[14] They had three children, two sons, Kayvan and Dariush, and one daughter, Rana, who died in an accidental fall in infancy in 1954.[15] They divorced in September 1959.[16][17]

After divorcing Hillyer, she married Mohammad Amir Khatami, the commanding general of Iran's air force, on 22 November 1959.[17][18] The shah and his then fiancée Farah Diba attended the wedding ceremony.[17] They had two sons, Kambiz (born 1961) and Ramin (born 1967), and a daughter, Pari (born 1962).[19]

Pahlavi took courses from a British pilot to learn to fly a helicopter.[20] After she completed the first solo flight she gifted her trainer with a watch, Omega Speedmaster, which had been given to the Shah by the Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969 when they visited Iran as part of a tour to celebrate the first moon landing.[20] In early 2021 the watch was sold for £18,000 at auction.[20]

Pahlavi left Iran before the 1979 revolution.[14] During her last years, she was living in London.[21]

Death[]

Pahlavi died at the age of 58 in London on 2 June 1987.[2][21] She was survived by her four sons.[21]

Honours[]

National[]

Foreign[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Iranian princess dies at age 58". The Lewiston Journal. 2 June 1987. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
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  4. ^ Jump up to: 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.
  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.
  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. ^ Jump up to: a b David Harris (2005). "Buying Loyalty in Iran" (PDF). The Long Term View. 6 (3): 88–96.
  9. ^ Edgar Burke Inlow (1 January 1979). Shahanshah: The Study of Monarchy of Iran. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 91. ISBN 978-81-208-2292-4.
  10. ^ Houchang E. Chehabi (Autumn 2002). "A Political History of Football in Iran". Iranian Studies. 35 (4): 387. doi:10.1080/14660970600615328.
  11. ^ "Iran. Part II (1950–1955)" (PDF). Iranian Hotline. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "Half sister of the late Shah". Orlando Sentinel. 3 June 1987. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b Gholamali Haddad Adel; Mohammad Jafar Elmi; Hassan Taromi-Rad, eds. (1 October 2012). Pahlavi Dynasty: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. MIU Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-908433-01-5.
  15. ^ "Shah of Iran's half-sister dies". Rome News-Tribune. 2 June 1987. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  16. ^ "US aided in ouster of Shah". St. Joseph News Press. AP. 9 August 1980. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Shah engaged". Toledo Blade. 23 November 1960. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ Ebrahim Hadidi. "Field Martial Mohammad Khatami". Institute for Iranian History. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  20. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Watch presented to Shah by Apollo 11 crew sold by Dorset man". BBC. 19 February 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  21. ^ Jump up to: 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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