Date of
Birth: March 27, 1970 I wanted to start the new year off with a tribute to the fallen Princess of my people. This weeks honey is special to me for obvious reasons. Princess Leila Pahlavi died on June 10, 2001 in the Leonard Hotel in west London of unexplainable causes. The princess died in her sleep and it is said that she had been "very depressed." Princess Leila, born in Tehran in 1970, fled her native country following the overthrow of her father, the late Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, in the 1979 Islamic revolution. Leila was the youngest of the late Shah's five children, and the fourth by his third wife, the former empress Farah Pahlavi. The princess, who was unmarried at the time of her death, fled the Iranian capital at the age of nine after her father was deposed. She eventually settled in the U.S. state of Massachusetts following her father's death from cancer at a Cairo hospital in July 1980. After attending a Massachusetts public school, the princess graduated in 1992 from Brown University, part of America's elite Ivy League. Since then, she has reportedly divided her time between Europe and the United States. In a magazine interview in September 2000, Leila spoke of her nostalgia for Iran. "I have spent almost my entire life abroad, but I remain just as Iranian as if I had never left my country." Her mother released this statement following her death. Her brother released this statement following her death.
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Princess
Leila Pahlavi of Iran
