Background
Shafiq was born in 1951. She was the daughter of Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of the Shah Mohammad Reza, and her second husband, Ahmad Shafiq, who was an Egyptian.
Shafiq was born in 1951. She was the daughter of Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of the Shah Mohammad Reza, and her second husband, Ahmad Shafiq, who was an Egyptian.
She had a brother, Shahriar. She was educated in German school in Tehran, and in France. Shafiq married twice.
She divorced from Vahid in 1975.
She later wed a former Iranian military officer She began to live in Paris following the Iranian revolution.
They both acted as the Pahlavi family’s principal spokesmen. She participated in protests and opposition activities to the Islamic regime.
She supported efforts to restore the monarchy in Iran and headed a monarchist group, Free Iran movement in Paris.
In 1979 she began to publish a weekly magazine, Iran-e Azad, and it was disbanded in the 1980s. She served as a social and humanitarian worker with the Iranian community in Turkey from 1984 to 1991. Shafiq died of leukemia in Paris on 23 February 2011.