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Shyam Bhatia India Abroad Correspondent in London
The late Shah of Iran's youngest daughter has been found dead in a west London hotel.
Thirty-one-year-old Princess Leila Pahlavi, who lived in the US, was found dead by the staff at the Leonard Hotel on Sunday evening.
A post-mortem examination failed to reveal the cause of her death, police said. "It is classed as an unexplained death," a spokeswoman for Scotland Yard told India Abroad.
Leila was the youngest of the Shah's five children, and the fourth by his third wife, Queen Farah.
When she was nine, Princess Leila was forced to flee Iran with her family after her father was overthrown in the Islamic revolution.
She later moved to Massachusetts in the US where she was a high school student before going on to study at Brown University.
She was not married and, after graduating in 1992, spent most of her time between the US and Europe.
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