Badr al-Molouk

Badr al-Molouk (Persian: بدرالملوک), was the first wife of Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty.

Badr al-Molouk
Queen consort of Iran
Badr al-Molouk in 1921
Born	Badr al-Molouk Vala 1897 (1897) Tabriz, Qajar Iran
Died	May 23, 1979(1979-05-23) (aged 81–82) Tehran, Iran
Burial	Behesht-e Zahra
Spouse	Ahmad Shah Qajar
Issue	Irandokht
Names Badr al-Molouk Vala
Dynasty	Qajar
Father	Zahir as-Sultan Vala
Mother	Afagh Khanom
Religion	Shia Islam

Badr al-Molouk was born in 1897 in Tabriz. She was the daughter of the Qajar Prince Zahir as-Sultan Vala and Afagh Khanom.

At four years old, her future mother-in-law, Princess Malekeh Jahan, arranged her marriage to Crown Prince Ahmad Mirza. She was educated at the only girls school in Tehran.

Badr al-Molouk was taken from school and married to Ahmad Mirza when she was twelve years old in 1909. The wedding was held by the Crown Prince's mother, Malekeh Jahan, and was a great ceremony. Later the same year, her spouse succeeded to the throne as Ahmad Shah Qajar. She did not play a public role during the reign of her spouse, since royal women at this time period still lived in seclusion.

In 1923, her husband was deposed, bringing an end to the Qajar dynasty's rule. She accompanied him to her mother-in-law in Baghdad and then to Lebanon and France.^[1] When Reza Shah, the new ruler of Iran, allowed members of the Qajar dynasty to return to Iran in the 1940s, she chose to come back and live in Tehran until her death in 1979.

She was the mother of Princess Irandokht (1915–1984), the Shah's second child. ^[2]

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References

1. "Malekeh Jahan". Institute for Iranian contemporary historical studies. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
2. Sheikholeslami, Mohammad Javad. Ahmad shah Qajar.