1. Tadj ol-Molouk was Queen of Iran as the second wife of Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and Shah of Iran between 1925 and 1941.
16 Facts About Tadj ol-Molouk
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Tadj ol-Molouk was the first queen in Iran after the Muslim conquest in the seventh century to have participated in public royal representation, and she played a major role in the kashf-e hijab in 1936.
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Tadj ol-Molouk was the daughter of Brigadier General Teymur Khan Ayromlou, of the Turkic Ayrum tribe, and wife Malek os-Soltan.
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Privately, Tadj ol-Molouk did not live with Reza Shah at this point, as he reportedly devoted his time to his other wives, Turan Amirsoleimani, and, from 1923, Esmat Dowlatshahi.
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Tadj ol-Molouk was the first Queen of Iran to have played a public role, and to have performed an official position out in public society.
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Tadj ol-Molouk continued to participate in public representation in this fashion when obliged to by her husband and thus played an indirect role in his policy, but she never made any initiatives of her own and stayed out of political involvement.
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Tadj ol-Molouk did not follow him to his exile in Mauritius, and later South Africa, instead choosing to remain at the court of her son in Iran.
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Tadj ol-Molouk was later elected to the National Consultative Assembly.
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Tadj ol-Molouk held significant influence over her son and reportedly dominated the royal household.
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Tadj ol-Molouk was acknowledged to have had a deeply devoted relationship to Princess Shahnaz.
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In 1950, Tadj ol-Molouk participated in arranging the marriage between her son the Shah and Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari.
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Tadj ol-Molouk left Iran with most of the royal household during the premiership of Mossadegh when the latter asked the Shah to expel them from Iran.
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Tadj ol-Molouk did not fully attend the coronation of the shah on 26 October 1967, attending only the reception following it rather than the coronation itself.
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Tadj ol-Molouk did arrange two receptions in her palace annually: one to celebrate the birthday of her eldest grandson, and one to celebrate the fall of Mossadegh.
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Tadj ol-Molouk arrived in Los Angeles on 30 December 1978 aboard an Imperial Iranian Air Force Boeing 747.
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Tadj ol-Molouk died in Acapulco, Mexico, on 10 March 1982, seven days before her 86th birthday.