Hamdam al-Saltaneh Pahlavi (; 22 February 1903 – 5 April 1992) 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 (also known as Tajmah), 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, Iran.

Hamdam al-Saltaneh married 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 Atabay and a daughter, Simin (or Simine).

Honours Order of the Pleiades (Neshaan-e haft peikar), 2nd Class, (1957, Iran) Order of Aryamehr (Neshān-e Āryāmehr), 2nd Class, (26 September 1967, Iran)

See also

List of Iranian women royalty

References