What is Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary?
{{Infobox royalty |consort=yes | name=Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary | image =Queen-Shabanu Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Tehran 1953.jpg | caption = | succession = [[Queen consort|Queen consort of Iran]] | reign = 12 February 1951 – 15 March 1958 | spouse = {{marriage|[[Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran|Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi]]<br>|1951|1958|reason=divorced}} | father = [[Khalil Esfandiary Bakhtiary]] | mother = Eva Karl | full name = {{lang-en|Soraya}}<br/> {{lang-fa|ثریا}} | birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|6|22|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Esfahan]], [[Pahlavi dynasty|Persia]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|10|26|1932|6|22|df=y}} | occupation = [[Actress]] (1965) | death_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] | place of burial = [[Westfriedhof (Munich)|Westfriedhof]], [[Munich]], [[Germany]] |religion = [[Christianity]] }} '''Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary''' ({{lang-fa|ثریا اسفندیاری بختیاری|Sorayâ Esfandiyâri-Baxtiyâri}}; 22 June 1932 – 26 October 2001) was the [[queen consort]] of [[Iran]] as the second wife of [[Pahlavi dynasty|Shah]] [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]], whom she married in 1951. Soraya died on 26 October 2001 in her apartment in Paris, France; she was 69.<ref name=bpost26oct>{{cite news|title=Soraya, the second wife of Shah of Iran, dies|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Soraya%2c+the+second+wife+of+Shah+of+Iran%2c+dies.-a079470137|accessdate=11 June 2013|newspaper=The Birmingham Post|date=26 October 2001}}</ref><ref name=wp25oc>{{cite news|title=Wife of Former Shah of Iran Dies|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011025/aponline212922_000.htm|accessdate=16 July 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=25 October 2001|agency=AP|location=Paris|archive-date=9 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109130002/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011025/aponline212922_000.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Estandiary-Bakhtiary, Soraya}} [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:2001 deaths]] [[Category:Kings and Queens consort]]