Khosrow Jahanbani Explained

Full Name:Khosrow Khoban Mirza Jahanbani
Dynasty:Qajar
Father:Amanullah Jahanbani
Mother:Helen Kasminsky
Birth Date:27 February 1941
Birth Place:Tehran, Pahlavi Iran
Death Place:Geneva, Switzerland
Place Of Burial:Geneva

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] 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.[4]

They had two children; a son, Keykhosrow, (born 20 November 1971) and a daughter, Fawzia, (born 1973).[3] [5]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Centers of Power in Iran. CIA. 5 August 2013. May 1972.
  2. Book: Homa Katouzian. The Persians. Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern. 2010. Yale University Press. New Haven, CT; London. 978-0-300-16932-4. 329. 246129440. 10.12987/9780300161229. Homa Katouzian.
  3. News: عکس:فوزیه جهانبانی نوه محمدرضا پهلوی!. 7 August 2021. Bourse News. 6 June 2014. fa.
  4. Book: Gholamali Haddad Adel. Mohammad Jafar Elmi. Hassan Taromi-Rad. Pahlavi Dynasty: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. 2012. EWI Press Ltd.. 146. 978-1-908433-01-5. London.
  5. News: Shahnaz Pahlavi. 8 April 2022. Pars Times.
  6. Web site: Lenziran. 23 April 2014. Husband of Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi Khosrow Jahanbani passed away. https://web.archive.org/web/20140424151247/http://lenziran.com/2014/04/20/husband-of-princess-shahnaz-pahlavi-khosrow-jahanbani-passed-away/. 24 April 2014. dead.