IOR/L/PS/12/3495

Correspondence from the British Legation in Tehran, press cuttings, and copies of Persian Government announcements (in French) relating to the movements and activities of members of the Persian royal family, and in particular, the Crown Prince, Muḥammad Reza Pahlavi. The file covers: the Crown Prince and the Persian Minister of Court’s [Abdolhossein Khan Teymourtash] visit to Europe in 1931; reports on the education of the Crown Prince in Geneva, Switzerland, between 1935 and 1936; the Shah’s betrothal of his two daughters in 1936; the engagement and wedding of the Crown Prince to the Egyptian Princess Fowzieh [Fawzia Fuad] in 1938; constitutional changes to Persian law and the conference of Iranian nationality upon Princess Fowzieh; British officials’ desire to discourage ‘sensational newspapers and magazines’ from Britain from covering the Crown Prince’s wedding; the activities and movements after the Second World War of Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of Muḥammad Reza Pahlavi, and her husband Ahmed Chafik Bey, Director of Civil Aviation in Iran.

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.