The Empress and the Shah Banu

In 1967, for the first time in Iranian history, the Empress is also crowned Shah Banu. This is kind of, you know, he makes this big, visible external push to show just how enlightened his rule is. He says that if he is to die before the crown prince turns 20, that his wife will become queen - which would have been unprecedented. But it's always hedged, right? There's always some hedges in these in these proclamations. So I think that kind of gives a shape to where the Shah is at in terms of the question of gender more directly.