- Title: FRANCE: FUNERAL: SHAH'S DAUGHTER BURIED IN PARIS.
- Date: 17th June 2001
- Summary: PARIS,FRANCE (16 JUNE 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/PAN/ZOOM IN: EXTERIOR PASSY CEMETERY - BLACK HEARSE ENTERING GATES 0.21 2. GV/MV/PAN: ARRIVAL OF FARAH DIBAH, LEILA PAHLAVI' S MOTHER LEADING A GROUP OF MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY (2 SHOTS) 0.49 3. MCU/PAN: POLICEMAN KEEPING ORDER IN THE STREET 0.57 4. GV/PAN: FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARRIVING 1.19 5. GV/MV: VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF CEMETERY WITH SECURITY AND ONLOOKERS (5 SHOTS) 1.51 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Reuters ID: LVA2PF32BGNTRWZC3NTP94I4M031
- Story Text: Leila Pahlavi, the youngest daughter of the late Shah
of Iran has been buried at the Passy Cemetery in Paris.
The funeral for youngest daughter of the late Shah of
Iran was held in the Passy cemetery in Paris's wealthy 16th
arrondissement on Saturday (June 16), a week after she was
found dead in a London hotel room.
The flower-laden casket of 31-year-old Princess Leila
Pahlavi was driven through the black iron gates of the large
Passy cemetery Place Trocadero at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) amidst a
modest crowd of mourners and onlookers.
Her mother, the former empress Farah, followed the hearse
on foot dressed in a black shawl and suit.
The princess was discovered dead on Sunday in a west
London hotel after suffering what her mother said was a
long period of depression. The autopsy failed to determine the
cause of death, and the results of further analysis
were not expected for several weeks according to the family.
Scotland Yard said it had launched an investigation into
the death of the princess. Newspapers speculated she
may have killed herself or suffered from a rare cerebral
disease.
Farah, the shah's third wife who bore him four children,
said Leila had been unhappy living far from Iran.
The youngest of the Shah's five children, the princess
split time between Connecticut in the United States, her
mother's flat in Paris and the Leonard Hotel in London.
Farah said her daughter, who was born on March 27, 1970,
never forgot the "injustice and the dramatic
conditions of her departure" from her homeland.
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