Iran greets Queen's death with official silence

but some Iranians expressed outright hostility, accusing Britain of having supported the late shah's regime.

Queen Elizabeth's son Charles - now Britain's King Charles III - visited Iran on a humanitarian mission following the devastating 2003 earthquake in Bam in the south-east that cost tens of thousands of lives.British and Soviet forces invaded Iran in 1941 to secure British oil fields at Abadan. During the occupation, the pro-Axis Shah Reza Pahlavi was forced into exile and replaced by his young son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

However, a passage in the recent book The Secret Royals by Mr Richard J. Aldrich and Mr Rory Cormac gives a rather different view.

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