Meet of exclusive with Farah Diba
Empress of Iran in exile since 28 years, Farah Diba, as call always affectionately it the French, lives today between the United States and France. For the first time, it opens the doors of her Parisian apartment filled with memories with private Vie Vie public. It is a worthy and serene woman whom Mireille Dumas met, but which carries the marks of the exile forever. On the reign of the Shah of Iran, his trade of queen and empress, but also her dramas intimate, like the brutal disappearance of her Leila, "died about its misfortune of child", or its joys of grandmother filled with Noor, Imanand Farah, Farah Diba speaks with emotion and pride, without taboo and the high head, it which is given for "historical responsibility" not to forget which it is! The life of Farah Diba starts like a tale from the Arabian Nights. After studies of architecture in Paris, it returns to Teheran and becomes in December 1959 the third wife of the Shah of Iran, after Faouzia and Soraya. In October 1967, it is crowned empress of Iran. Whooping-cough of the fashionable press, Farah Diba is also the first loved woman of people of her country: an upheaval in this Moslem country. She will give rise to four children - Reza, the elder one and heir to the crown, Farahnaz, Ali Reza and Leila - and shares her time between her responsibilities for queen and her life of family. During twenty years of reign near the Shah, it will be a modern queen near to the people, in this controlled country of an iron hand by her husband, considered as a lit despot, and a dreaded political police force. Its life rocks at the time of the Islamic revolution of February 1979 which constrained all the family with the exile. Patient, the Shah of Iran dies in Egypt in 1980, one year after having left Teheran. When it is not in Paris, Farah Diba vità Washington, like her elder son Reza, successor in title of the Shah of Iran, and his three grand-daughters Noor, Imanand Farah born in the United States.
FRANCE 3 - Mercredi 4 avril 2007 à 20h50 - Vie privée vie publique - France 3