Iran: Tadj ol-Molouk (1896 - 1982), Queen of Iran and married to Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878 - 1944), the Shah of Iran, c. 1930s

Tadj ol-Molouk (born Nimtaj Ayromlou, 1896-1982) was Queen of Iran and wife of Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878 - 1944), the Shah of Iran. She was the first Queen of Iran to play a notable public role, performing an official position out in public society. She was instrumental in the abolition of the veil in Iran, and she often wore Western clothes to ceremonies and events, the first time an Iranian queen had ever shown herself in public.

Queen Nimtaj had four children with Reza Shah, and did not go into exile with him after he was deposed in 1941, staying with her eldest son, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi during his reign. When he himself was deposed in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, she had just been sent to their estate in Beverly Hills. She died from leukemia in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1982.

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