Queen Soraya and the Fall of Iran’s Fairy-Tale Monarchy

The History of The Sapphire Queen: Queen Soraya and the Fall of Iran’s Fairy-Tale Monarchy – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups. She was the queen who had everything — beauty, love, and the promise of a new era — until the throne demanded what her heart could not give. This is the true story of Queen Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, the woman they called The Sapphire Queen — a symbol of elegance, grace, and sorrow at the heart of Iran’s vanished monarchy.

💤 Crafted for grown-ups who crave calm, cinematic storytelling before sleep, this episode drifts through palaces of glass and deserts of memory, following Soraya from her childhood in Isfahan to the glittering courts of Tehran and the quiet exile of Paris. Beneath the jewels and silk lies a story of power and loss, of a woman who learned that even when empires fall, dignity endures.

In this story, you’ll experience:
The rise of a modern queen born between East and West
The royal wedding that captivated a nation
The love that defied empire — and the silence that followed
The fall of Iran’s fairy-tale monarchy and the legacy left behind

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📌 Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
00:47 - Birth of a Princess and a Dream
19:11 - A Royal Wedding, A Nation’s Hope
38:27 - Glamour, Scrutiny, and the Heir Question
56:40 - Turbulent Politics, Cold War Shadows
1:16:25 - The Breaking Point and Divorce
1:34:35 - The Monarchy’s Golden Illusion
1:53:21 - Storm Clouds over the Empire
2:11:48 - Revolution and the Fall of the Throne
2:30:34 - Life in Exile and the Long Memory
2:50:26 - Legacy, Myth and Memory in Twenty-First Century Iran
3:09:07 - Reflections under the Star-Lit Court

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