Princess Qajar: The True Story Behind the Memes

Princess Qajar memes have been making the rounds on the internet for a long time usually with some claim like "she was so beautiful that she drove 13 men to suicide." Today, I'm going to debunk some of the claims around Princess Qajar and dive into who they really were.

Sources:
al-Saltana, Taj (2003). Crowing Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess, from the Harem to Modernity. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers.

http://www.qajarwomen.org/

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