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🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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It should have been a fairytale romance: after a whirlwind courtship, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary married the Shah of Iran and the two fell deeply in love. But their happiness would be challenged at every turn by the roadblocks that come from royal obligation.
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0:29.2 | Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky, listener discretion advised. Suriah Asphandari Bactiari was the last passenger on the plane from Rome to disembark. |
0:51.6 | It was October 7, 1950, and the sun was just beginning to set behind the Western |
0:59.4 | skyline of Tehran. As soon as Soraya's feet hit the tarmac, she was quickly ushered into a |
1:07.7 | waiting limousine. Soraya and her father drove through the city to the house that they would be staying at for the |
1:15.6 | duration of their trip to Iran's capital. |
1:19.4 | Suriah gazed out the window and tried to imagine what her next day would look like. |
1:26.3 | Despite the fatigue she felt from the long travel day, she was too excited about being presented to the Iranian court and the Shah to quiet her mind. |
1:38.8 | Just a few months ago, she was a normal German Iranian girl who had just graduated from finishing school. |
1:47.0 | Now she was a contender to be the Shah's wife, the Empress of Iran. |
1:54.4 | Once at the house, Suriah began to unpack her trunks. |
1:59.0 | As she put her clothes away, she admired the dresses that she had bought in Paris. Which one should she |
2:06.0 | wear tomorrow to be presented to the court? Maybe the blue one, but with what shoes? |
2:12.0 | Oh, certainly the white kitten heels, very classy. But would |
2:17.3 | the shawl like this outfit? Her thoughts were interrupted by a knock at the bedroom door. |
2:24.4 | Suriah opened the door to a servant delivering a message. |
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