Shahnaz Pahlavi

Shahnaz Pahlavi (; born 27 October 1940) is the first child of the former Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his first wife, Fawzia of Egypt.

Early life and education Shahnaz Pahlavi was born in Tehran, Iran, on 27 October 1940, a year before the accession of her father to the throne. She is the only child of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his first wife Queen Fawzia. Her parents separated when she was five years old, with her remaining in Iran with her father, and divorced when she was eight years old,

Shahnaz is the paternal half-sister of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi, Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi and Princess Leila Pahlavi — the four children of the Shah by his third wife, Farah Pahlavi. Her maternal grandparents were King Fuad I and Queen Nazli of Egypt; and her paternal grandparents were Reza Shah and Queen Tadj ol-Molouk of Iran. She is also the niece of King Farouk I of Egypt and thus a cousin of the last Egyptian king, Fuad II.

Shahnaz Pahlavi was educated in a Belgian boarding school, the Lycée Léonie de Waha in Liège, Belgium, and then in Switzerland.

Personal life

Her father had plans for Shahnaz's marriage with King Faisal II of Iraq, which did not materialise due to her unwillingness.

Her first marriage, at age 16, was to Ardeshir Zahedi on 11 October 1957, at Golestan Palace, Tehran. She and Zahedi first met in Germany in 1955. They divorced in 1964.

Shahnaz later married Khosrow Jahanbani, the son of Iranian general Amanullah Jahanbani, in February 1971 at the Iranian embassy in Paris. Their marriage lasted until Jahanbani's death on 13 April 2014.

During her father's reign, Shahnaz had investments in agricultural enterprises and assembly plants of a joint venture with Honda bicycles and motorcycles in Iran.

Later years Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Shahnaz Pahlavi has lived in Switzerland. Imperial Iran: Grand Cross of the Order of the Pleiades, 1st class Imperial Iran: 25th Anniversary medal Imperial Iran: 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire

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