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Following the ceremony, both jacket and veil were exchanged for an emerald and diamond parure and the crown jewels were added. Given it was mid February and the palace was unheated, by the evening the bride was given a mink cape to keep her warm and wool socks to hide beneath her dress.
Seven years later, after Queen Soraya had failed to provide the Shah with a male heir (doctors had informed her she would not be able to conceive ‘for many years’), the couple were forced to separate. In…
