But her eagerness to use her status to help her husband’s endeavors in building a better future for came to a temporary halt as Queen Farah discovered she was pregnant just two months after their marriage. On October 31, 1960, the Shah, who had waited a long time for an heir, told his beaming wife at her bedside that she had given birth to a son, Reza. The royal couple went on to have three more children: Farahnaz (March 12, 1963), Shahpur Ali-Reza (April 28-1966 to January 4, 2011) and Leila (March 27, 1970 to June 10, 2001).
