Khosrow Jahanbani

Khosrow Jahanbani
Born27 February 1941
Tehran, Pahlavi Iran
Died16 April 2014(2014-04-16) (aged 73)
Geneva, Switzerland
Burial
Geneva
Spouse
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(m. 1971)​
Issue
  • Keykhosrow Jahanbani
  • Fawzia Jahanbani
Names
Khosrow Khoban Mirza Jahanbani
DynastyQajar
FatherAmanullah Jahanbani
MotherHelen Kasminsky

Khosrow Jahanbani (27 February 1941 – 16 April 2014) was the son of Iranian general Amanullah Jahanbani and second husband of Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi.

Early life

Jahanbani was born on 27 February 1941 and was the youngest son of Iranian general Amanullah Jahanbani, great-grandson of Fath Ali Shah.[1] His mother, Helen Kasminsky, was from the Russian aristocracy in Petrograd.[1] His grandfather served as governor of Azerbaijan.[1] He was the younger brother of Nader Jahanbani who was executed in February 1979 after the Iranian revolution.[1][2]

Personal life and death

Jahanbani and Shahnaz Pahlavi, the eldest daughter of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, became close friends in Switzerland where the former was studying arts.[3] They married at the Iranian Embassy in Paris in February 1971.[1][4] In a publication of the Islamic Republic of Iran it is argued that the marriage was not supported by Shahnaz Pahlavi's father, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[5]

They had two children; a son, Keykhosrow, (born 20 November 1971) and a daughter, Fawzia, (born 1973).[3][4]

Jahanbani died on 16 April 2014 after combating cancer for several years.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Centers of Power in Iran" (PDF). CIA. May 1972. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  2. ^ Homa Katouzian (2010). The Persians. Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern. New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press. p. 329. doi:10.12987/9780300161229. ISBN 978-0-300-16932-4. S2CID 246129440.
  3. ^ a b "عکس:فوزیه جهانبانی نوه محمدرضا پهلوی!". Bourse News (in Persian). 6 June 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Shahnaz Pahlavi". Pars Times. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  5. ^ Gholamali Haddad Adel; Mohammad Jafar Elmi; Hassan Taromi-Rad, eds. (2012). Pahlavi Dynasty: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. London: EWI Press Ltd. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-908433-01-5.
  6. ^ "Husband of Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi Khosrow Jahanbani passed away". Lenziran. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2014.