Shahbanu

Shahbanu (in Persian:شهبانو‎‎ - Šahbānū) means "The Lady Shah" in Persian.

Upon assuming the title in 1967, Farah Pahlavi, the third wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was the first Shahbanu to be crowned in Iran since the Arab conquest of Iran in the 7th century. The two Sassanian Empresses, Purandokht and Azarmidokht, c. 630, were the last two that carried the title before Farah Pahlavi.