page_title: Tadj ol-Molouk
section_title: Queen
hierarchical_section_title: Tadj ol-Molouk / Biography / Queen
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: La reine d'Iran Tadj ol-Molouk, portrait présumé de 1926
context_page_description: Tâj ol-Moluk Âyromlu was Queen of Iran as the wife of Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and Shah of Iran between 1925 and 1941. The title she was given after becoming Queen means "Crown of the Kings" in the Persian language. She was the first Queen in Iran after the Muslim conquest in the 7th century to have participated in public royal representation and played a major role in the Kashfe hijab in 1936.
context_section_description: On 15 December 1925, her spouse declared himself Shahan-Shah (King of Kings), and she was granted the title Maleke (Queen).
  Privately, Tadj ol-Molouk did not live with Reza Shah at this point, as he reportedly devoted his time on his other wives, Touran Amir Soleimani, and, from 1923, Esmat Dowlatshahi.  Neither did she involve herself in politics on her own initiative.  However, it was she who was given the position of Queen during his reign, which signified an important role in his policy on women. She was the first Queen of Iran to have played a public role, and to have performed an official position out in public society.
  Her role as a queen participating in public representational duties had a great importance within the new policy of women's role in Iran, as it was the policy of her husband to increase women's participation in society as a method of modernization, in accordance with the example of Turkey.  She played an important part in the abolition of the veil in Iran during the reign of her husband. The unveiling of women had a huge symbolic importance to achieve this, and the shah introduced the reform gradually so as not to cause unrest: while women teachers where encouraged to unveil in 1933 and schoolgirls and women students in 1935, the official declaration of unveiling were made on 8 January 1936, and the queen and her daughters where given an important role in this event.      That day, Reza Shah attended the graduation ceremony of the Tehran Teacher's College with the queen and their two daughters unveiled and dressed in modern clothes, without veils.  The queen handed out diplomas, while the shah spoke about half the population being disregarded, and told women that the future was now in their hands.   This was the first time an Iranian queen showed herself in public. Afterwards, the Shah had pictures of his wife and daughters published, and unveiling enforced throughout Iran.
  Tadj ol-Molouk continued to participate in public representation in this fashion when obliged to by her husband and thus played an indirect role in his policy, but she never made any initiatives of her own and stayed out of political involvement. In 1939, she attended the wedding of her son to Fawzia of Egypt.  The relationship to Fawzia was not, however, described as a good one.
caption: Queen Taj ol-Molouk, between 1926–1941
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