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

Early life and education

Shahnaz Pahlavi was born in

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on 27 October 1940. She is the only child of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his first wife Princess Fawzia. Shahnaz is the half-sister of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, Princess

Farahnaz Pahlavi Farahnaz Pahlavi ( fa, فرحناز پهلوی; born 12 March 1963) is the eldest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi by his third wife, Farah Diba. Education She studied at the Niavaran Special School in Tehran, the Ethel Walker School in Sim ...

, Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi II and Princess Leila Pahlavi – the four children of the Shah by his third wife,

Farah Pahlavi Farah Pahlavi ( fa, فرح پهلوی, née Farah Diba ( fa, فرح دیبا, label=none); born 14 October 1938) is the widow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was successively Queen and Empress ('' Shahbanu'') of Iran fro ...

. Her maternal grandparents were King Fuad I and Queen Nazli of Egypt; and her paternal grandparents were

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and Queen

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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 and then in Switzerland.

Personal life

Her father had plans for Shahnaz's marriage with King Faisal of Iraq which was not materialized due to her unwillingness. Her first marriage, at age sixteen, was to

Ardeshir Zahedi Ardeshir Zahedi, GCVO ( fa, اردشیر زاهدی; 16 October 1928 – 18 November 2021) was an Iranian politician and diplomat who served as the country's foreign minister from 1966 to 1971, and its ambassador to the United States and the Un ...

on 11 October 1957, at

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in Tehran. He was one-time Iranian foreign minister and twice Iranian ambassador to the United States (1957–64 and 1972–79). Zahedi and she first met in Germany in 1955. The couple have one daughter, Princess (styled "Vala Gohari") Mahnaz Zahedi (born 2 December 1958). They divorced in 1964. Shahnaz later married Khosrow Jahanbani in February 1971 at the Iranian Embassy,

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. Their marriage lasted until Jahanbani's death in April 2014. They have one son, Keykhosrow (born 20 November 1971), and one daughter, Fawzia (born 1973). During her father's reign, Shahnaz had investments in agricultural enterprises and assembly plants of

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bicycles and motorcycles.

Later years

Since the

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dyna ...

Shahnaz Pahlavi has lived in Switzerland. She has Swiss citizenship. In December 2013 Shahnaz Pahlavi was granted Egyptian citizenship by the Egyptian government.

Honours

* Pahlavi Iran: Grand Cross of the Order of AryamehrPinterest
/ref> * Pahlavi Iran: Grand Cross of the Order of the Pleiades, 1st class * Pahlavi Iran: 25th Anniversary medal * Pahlavi Iran: 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire

Ancestry

Gallery

Image:Cecil Beaton Photographs- Political and Military Personalities; Chahnaz, Princess of Iran, Fawzieh, Queen of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi CBM2404.jpg, Princess Shahnaz with her parents in Tehran during the

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. Photo by

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Image:Mohammad Pahlavi Coronation.jpg, Coronation of the Shah of Iran in 1967 – Princess Shahnaz (second from left)

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