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Taj ol-Molouk

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Taj ol-Molouk in her youth.

Taj al-Mulouk Khanoum Umm al-Khakan (Persian: تاج‌الملوک خانم ام‌الخاقان) (died 1 November 1909)[1] was the royal consort of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar (r.1896–1907) of the Sublime State of Iran.[2]

Life

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She was the daughter of Mirza Mohammad Taqi Khan-e Farahani and princess Ezzat ed-Dowleh. She was a niece of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (r.1848–1896).

Her father who had been in conflict with Malek Jahan Khanom, the queen mother and was therefore exiled when she was very young and later that same year he was executed. Taj ol-Molouk and sister were brought back to Tehran to be raised by Malek Jahan Khanom while her mother Ezzat ed-Dowleh was forced to remarry.

She was the mother of Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar (r.1907–1909).

She died on 1 November 1909 in Qasr-e Shirin near Kermanshah whilst on her way to Karbala.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Office, Great Britain Foreign (1910). Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of Persia. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 22.
  2. ^ William Cleveland, A History of the Modern Middle East, 5th edition, Westview, 2012, p. 100.