Leyla Yazdan-Panah

Leyla Yazdan-Panah
Isabella's Great Grandmother

Leyla, married to General Yazdan-Panah, was a Russian born aristrocrat whose father was the governor of Russian Azarbaijan and she was the Lady of Honor to 3 Persian Queens: Queen Fawzia, sister of King Farough of Egypt, who was married to the Shah of Iran from 1938 to 1945; the well known beauty, Queen Soraya, who was married to the Shah from 1951 to 1958 and is also a relative of Isabella Goli on her grandmother’s side; and finally Farah Diba, the Shah’s wife from 1959 until his death.