The news that my friend’s life Farah Diba It is being taken to the cinema has filled me with satisfaction. Because, if there is a person who has lived as dramatic, from the glamorous heights as Iran Empress to the depths of contempt and exile in addition to the duel for the death of her husband ShaIt is Farah. Not to mention the suicide of two of his four children, Leila, who was found dead in a hotel in London, and Ali Reza, who committed suicide in Boston, victim of the same depression as his sister, both unable to overcome Exile.
The film is being directed by the Franco-Iraní filmmaker Emily Atefseveral of whose films have won prizes in recent years.
Everyone knows that my life, and not only the professional, has been linked to Farah, the young Iranian of Architecture in Paris who, overnight and with just over twenty years, knelt, fragile and trembling, at the feet of her king to enter the story as Empress of Iran. And it would become it after having married in 1959 with one of the most powerful men on Earth, the Sha of Iran, the King of Kings, the almighty shadow, regent of God on the earth and center of the universe. And she crowned, which Josefina, in Empress of the oldest empire in the world and starring with him the fabulous commemorative phases of the two thousand five hundred years of the Persian Empire, in Persepolis.
Spanish mantilla on your pain
Of all these events, I was privileged witness. All this dream, becoming a wonderful reality, collapsed under the feet of the beautiful Farah, like a sand castle in less than twenty years, beginning and end of the story of this woman so linked to my life for various circumstances, abandoning her palaces, her jewels and even the photographs that picked Palma de Mallorcawith their children. During this stay, they did not receive a single call from the kings Juan Carlos and Sofía, who, like the entire leaders of the entire world, refused to receive them after the overthrow of the SHA for Khomeinitaking only his life in a suitcase.
“To a turquoise necklace that I had bought with my own money, I didn’t want to take it,” he confessed. «I left it in my jeweler with other national heritage jewels. If one day I return, I will put them on, I told myself ».
In my file I keep Carmen’s photography, my wife, putting Farah, in her Mexican exile in Cuernavaca, the necklace The child and the dolphin of Dalí, that I decided to give him.
When on October 6, 1979 I gave Farah, in this exile, The black blond mantilla that I took as a giftHow far we were, both of us, to think that with this Spanish garment, it would cover its mourning and pain! Not once, not even two, but … four. When I took it, because she asked me on the phone, she knew that the death of her husband the emperor was, if not a day, yes of a few weeks. And that when it was produced, it was not going to be covered with the chador imposed by Jomeini, the man who had thrown them into the darkness of exile.
The death of our daughters joined us
No one can cross life without suffering and experiencing dramatic moments. As the one happened on June 10, 2001, when the world was moved by the announcement of the death of Farah’s daughter, Leila Phalevithat had committed suicide with an overdose of drugs in the lonely room of the Leonard Hotel in London, victim of a deep depression. I will never forget the image of my farah, with my head covered with the Spanish mantilla that I gave him, burying his daughter in the Parisian cemetery of Passy, to his daughter, dead almost with the same age that Isabel was, mine. This death and then your son’s suicide Ali praywho took the life of a shot in Boston, consolidated our friendship of unfortunate parents.
When I met with Farah, he vents from so much pain, trying to rebuild me what his daughter’s ordeal had been. But when do parents know that their daughters drugs? Almost always, when they know him, it’s too late.
This is what I intended to convey to Queen Sofia by requesting an interview to talk about the drug drama that had killed my daughter, Farah’s daughter and so many young people. She simply looked for an answer to a question that she, president of a drug foundation, did not want, could not or could not give. Why intelligent and brilliant young people like Leila and like Isabel, with a magnificent future, depart from a family life to fall into the addiction of drugs or drugs without parents getting knowing anything and destroying not only their life but also that of their mother in the case of Leila or that of their parents in the case of Isabel? That, nothing more than that and only that is what I asked Queen Sofia. His silence filled me with sorrow. As a grief, I filled the death of my dear Farah’s daughter.
The worst, Farah is right when he recognized that it is impossible to fight the force of destiny. Our destination is often fulfilled despite the paths we take to avoid it. Farah thought that fate, fatality, fate would turn off with the death of her husband, the Sha, ignoring that only fate remains unchanged in life and even after death. Because what is written is never erased.
A proof of affection that has always professed me, the dedication of His memoirs: “For Jaime Peñafiel, that these memories are a trip to my life that you know and appreciate so much,” Farah Pahlavi.
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