Following the marriage, the Princess was granted Iranian nationality.[29] Two years later the crown prince succeeded his exiled father and was to become the Shah of Iran. Soon after her husband’s ascent to the throne, Queen Fawzia appeared on the cover of the 21 September 1942, issue of Life magazine, photographed by Cecil Beaton, who described her as an "Asian Venus" with "a perfect heart-shaped face and strangely pale but piercing blue eyes."[20] She led the newly founded Association for the Protection of Pregnant Women and Children (APPWC) in Iran.[30]