Meet princess Anis al-Doleh. She had over 150 princes wanting to marry her out of which 13 of them committed suicide because she rejected them.
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It's true that she's a princess and mustaches on women were considered hot, but there is no trace of these men, and it even appears that she got married when she was 9 or 10. No unnecessary deaths here!
Pretty much everything about this is wrong. Pictured here is princess Fatemeh Khanum “’Esmat al-Dowleh” or "Ismat al-Dawlah", daughter of Nasir al-Din (1855/6-1905).
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First, ‘Esmat was probably married when she was around nine or ten years old. Second, the marriage was very likely arranged while she was living among the women of her father’s harem. It seems highly unlikely that she had the opportunity to meet any man not her relative, never mind beguile and reject thirteen suicidal lovers. Later, as a married woman in patriarchal Persia, it’s equally unlikely that she was being courted by amorous suitors.
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The only part of the meme that has a grain of truth to it is that there was indeed a period in Persian history when ‘Esmat’s appearance – namely, her “mustache” – was considered beautiful. But this concept of beauty was at its height in the 19th century. In other words, the 1800s, not the 1900s, as the meme claims.
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First, ‘Esmat was probably married when she was around nine or ten years old. Second, the marriage was very likely arranged while she was living among the women of her father’s harem. It seems highly unlikely that she had the opportunity to meet any man not her relative, never mind beguile and reject thirteen suicidal lovers. Later, as a married woman in patriarchal Persia, it’s equally unlikely that she was being courted by amorous suitors.
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The only part of the meme that has a grain of truth to it is that there was indeed a period in Persian history when ‘Esmat’s appearance – namely, her “mustache” – was considered beautiful. But this concept of beauty was at its height in the 19th century. In other words, the 1800s, not the 1900s, as the meme claims.