Various slips in etiquette and protocol were gleefully reported such as the night at the Royal Albert Hall when the Shah draped an arm over the bare shoulders of the Princess of Wales and her sister the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia and attempted to feed them bonbons. The Shah was partial to the ladies as his twenty-five wives and fourteen sons and daughters demonstrated. But he was also a cultured man well-versed in European arts with interests in painting, photography and poetry. The Duke of Cambridge dined with him at Marlborough House and said ‘no ne could have behaved better or been more dignified while at dinner’.
