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Taj ol-Dowleh
Iranian royal consort, calligrapher and poet (d.1881) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Taj ol-Dowleh (Persian: تاجالدوله, died 1881) was the forty-second wife of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar and a poet. Her birth name was Tavus Khanum (Persian: طاووس خانم, romanized: Tāvus Xānom) and she was of Georgian descent.[1][2] She was born in Isfahan.
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She married Fath-Ali Shah in 1845 when she was 15 years old. The shah changed the name of the Sun Throne to Tavus Throne on the occasion of this marriage.[3] She was educated under the supervision of Neshat Isfahani. After a while the shah ordered the construction of a mansion for her because of his passionate love. Moreover, a part of royal treasury was entrusted to her which was called the special treasury. Every Nowruz she invited the shah along with his wives and married daughters to her mansion for thirteen days.[4]
At the moment of the shah's death, she was beside him in Isfahan and after that she took refuge to Mohammad Bagher Shafti from the princes' clashes for the throne. After the enthronement of Mohammad Shah Qajar she donated all of her jewelry to him and went on a Hajj trip with her son, Seyf Al-Duleh. After some Hajj trips she went to Najaf and lived there until the end of her life. Her cemetery is in Imam Ali's apron.[5]
She had six children: Soltan Mohammad Mirza Sayf ol-Dowleh, Soltan-Ahmad Mirza Azod od-Dowleh, Farokhsir Mirza Naier ol-Dowleh, Shirinjan Khanum, Khorshid-Kolah Khanum Shams ol-Dowleh (she was married to Mirza MohammadAli Khan Nezam ol-Dowleh and her daughter, Shams ol-Molouk, married Aga Khan II) and Morasa Khanum.
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