Marriages and Children
Ashraf Pahlavi's first marriage was to Mirza 'Ali Muhammed Khan Ghavam, Nasir ud-Daula (born 1911). They were married in March 1937 and divorced in 1942. Ghavam was the Assistant Military Attaché in 1941 Washington DC and the eldest son of H.H. Mirza Ibrahim Khan Ghavam, Qavam ul-Mulk. She has one son from her first marriage:
- H.H. Prince (Vala Gohar) Shahram Pahlavi-Nia (born 18 April 1940, Tehran)
Her second marriage was to (Sahib ul-Izza) Ahmed Chafik Bey (born 21 September 1911; who was later married a second time to Deloris Pianezzola. He died of cancer in 1976, in Tehran). They married in 1944 in Cairo and divorced in 1959. He was the Director-General of Civil Aviation and fourth son of H.E. (Hazrat Sahib ul-Sa'ada) Ahmad Shafiq Pasha, the Minister of the Khedivial Court of Egypt. They had one son and one daughter:
- Captain H.H. Prince (Vala Gohar) Shahriar Mustapha Chafik (15 March 1945 - 7 December 1979) - assassinated in Paris on 7 December 1979.
- H.H. Princess (Vala Gohari) Azadeh Pahlavi-Chafik (1951 - 2011)
Finally, she married a third time on 5 June 1960 (at the Iranian Embassy in Paris) to Mehdi Bushehri (born 1916), who is the Director of the Maison d'Iran (Iran House), Paris. They do not have any children.
In a 1980 interview with The New York Times journalist Judy Klemesrud, Pahlavi stated, “I have never been a good mother. Because of my way of life, I was not with my children very much”. Additionally, while Pahlavi was living in exile in New York City (Beekman Place), her husband Mehdi Bushehri remained in Paris and the two rarely saw each other.
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