Hamdam al-Saltaneh Pahlavi

Hamdam al-Saltaneh Pahlavi was the first child and daughter of Reza Shah of Iran and Maryam Savadkoohi.

Biography

She was born on 22 February 1903 in Tehran and died in 1992. Her mother, Maryam Savadkoohi, died when she was only one year old. Other sources mention Safiye Hamadani as her mother, a woman to whom Reza Khan was married briefly while serving in Hamadan. Hamdam al-Saltaneh was married to Hadi Atabay, and in 1925 bore her first child, a son, Amir Reza Atabay. Later, she gave birth to two more children, a son, Cyrus and a daughter, Simin.

Honours

Order of the Pleiades, 2nd Class,
Order of Aryamehr, 2nd Class,