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Prince Aly Khan Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan (13 June 1911 – 12 May 1960), known as Aly Khan, was a Pakistani diplomat of Iranian and Italian descent. He was the son of the Aga Khan III, and the father of Aga Khan IV. A socialite, racehorse owner and jockey, ...

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Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose John Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose (12 July 1909 – 15 February 1995) was a British nobleman, politician, and newspaper proprietor. Early life Berry was born in Surrey on 12 July 1909, the eldest son of William Berry, later first Viscoun ...

, 1986, 1995, end=his death , spouse-type = , issue = Patrick Benjamin Guinness

Aga Khan IV Shāh Karim al-Husayni (born 13 December 1936), known by the religious title Mawlānā Hazar Imam by his Ismaili followers and elsewhere as Aga Khan IV, is the 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailis, a denomination within Shia Islam. He ha ...

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Amyn Aga Khan Prince Amyn Muhammad Aga Khan ( fa, امین محمد آغا خان , ur, ; born 12 September 1937) is the younger brother of Aga Khan IV, Imam of the Nizari Isma'ili sect of Shia Islam. He is the son of Prince Aly Khan and Princess Tajuddaw ...

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John Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston John Reginald Lopes Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston, MVO, OBE (9 November 1873 – 19 April 1930) was a British peer and soldier. He is the grandfather of Karim Aga Khan, leader of the Nizari Ismailis, an Islamic sect. Early life Yarde-Bulle ...

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Denise Orme Jessie Smither, Duchess of Leinster (25 August 1885 – 20 October 1960),Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd (2003), p. 2300 known by her stage name Denise Orme, was ...

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Early life

Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller was born on 22 April 1908. She was the eldest of six children born to

, the aide-de-camp to the

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, and

, a former music hall singer. Among her siblings were brother, Richard Yarde-Buller, who became the 4th

Baron Churston Baron Churston, of Churston Ferrers and Lupton in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1858 for the former Conservative Member of Parliament, Sir John Yarde, 3rd Baronet. He had earlier repr ...

; sister Lydia Yarde-Buller, who became the Duchess of Bedford (wife of

Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford John Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford (24 May 1917 – 25 October 2002), styled Lord Howland until 1940, and styled Marquess of Tavistock from 1940 until 1953, was a writer and a British peer. As a businessman, the Duke and J. Chipperf ...

); and Primrose Yarde-Buller, who became the Countess Cadogan (wife of William Cadogan, 7th Earl Cadogan). After her parents divorce in 1928, he mother married Danish diplomat Tito Wessel. They too divorced and Denise married

Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster, etc. (6 May 1892 – 8 March 1976), known as Lord Edward FitzGerald before 1922, was Ireland's Premier Peer of the Realm. Life Leinster was the youngest of the three sons born to Gerald, 5th Duke of L ...

.{{cite news , title=Duchess of Leinster, 86, Dead; Former Star of London Stage; Grandmother of Aga Khanu. As Denise Orme, She Won Acclaim in Edwardian Era , url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/10/22/archives/duchess-of-leinster-86-dead-former-star-of-london-stage-grandmother.html?searchResultPosition=1 , access-date=7 March 2022 , work=

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, date=22 October 1960 Her father was the only son of

John Yarde-Buller, 2nd Baron Churston John Yarde-Buller, 2nd Baron Churston (26 October 1846 – 19 April 1910) was a British peer and soldier. The elder son of the Hon. John Yarde-Buller (eldest son of John Yarde-Buller, 1st Baron Churston) and of Charlotte, a daughter of Edward Sac ...

and Barbara Yelverton (herself the only child of Sir Hastings Yelverton and the 20th Baroness Grey de Ruthyn).Peter W. Hammond, editor, ''The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda'' (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 81.

Personal life

On 4 July 1927, Joan married Loel Guinness, at

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in London.{{cite news , title=ROYALTY ATTENDS GUINNESS WEDDING; Son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Guinness Marries the Hon. Joan Yarde-Buller IN ST. MARGARET'S, LONDON Carnegie Officiates -- Bride Is Daughter of Baron Churston-Couple to Live in Pittsburgh. , url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/07/05/archives/royalty-attehd-guinne-ding-son-of-mr-and-mrs-benjamin-guinnes.html?searchResultPosition=2 , access-date=3 October 2022 , work=

, date=5 July 1927 Guinness, a British Conservative

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, was the only son of Irish lawyer Benjamin Seymour Guinness (of the Guinness brewing family), and his first wife, Bridget Henrietta Frances Williams-Bulkeley.{{cite news, title=Mrs. B.S. Guinness, Noted Hostess, Dies – Succumbs to Heart Disease at Cannes, France, After a Visit to New York – Original in Entertaining – While a Resident Here Tried to Help Ambitious Youths to a Career in the Drama, url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/01/06/archives/mrs-bs-guinness-noted-hostess-dies-succumbs-to-heart-disease-at.html, accessdate=21 September 2017, work=

, date=6 January 1931, page=27 They had one son: * Patrick Benjamin Guinness (1931–1965), who married Dolores Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise, Freiin von Fürstenberg-Hedringen (1936–2012), his stepsister from his father's third marriage, on 22 October 1955 in Paris. Joan left Guinness for

, the eldest son of the

Aga Khan III Sultan Muhammad Shah (2 November 187711 July 1957), commonly known by his religious title Aga Khan III, was the 48th Imam of the Nizariyya. He played an important role in British Indian politics. Born to Aga Khan II in Karachi, Aga Khan III ...

, the 43rd Imam of the Nizari Ismailis, and Guinness successfully sued Joan and Khan on grounds of adultery. Joan and Khan did not defend the charges and the judge, Justice Bucknill, granted Guinness a ''

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'' and full custody of their son and ordered Khan to pay court costs.

Second marriage

A few days after the divorce from Guinness was effective, on 18 May 1936, in Paris, Joan Yarde-Buller married

. Before the wedding, Yarde-Buller converted to Islam and took the name "Taj-ud-dawlah", meaning "Crown of the Realm". Yarde-Buller and Khan had two sons: *

(b. 1936) * Prince

(b. 1937).{{cite news , last1=Nemy , first1=Enid , title=The Uncomplicated Life of a Prince on the East Side , url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/02/05/archives/the-uncomplicated-life-of-a-prince-on-the-east-side.html?searchResultPosition=10 , access-date=3 October 2022 , work=

, date=5 February 1967 They divorced in 1949 and the Prince later married

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.{{cite news , last1=Times , first1=Special to The New York , title=ALY KHAN'S WILL IS READ; Children Get Most of Estate -- Model Given $280,000 , url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/09/14/archives/aly-khans-will-is-read-children-get-most-of-estate-model-given.html?searchResultPosition=8 , access-date=3 October 2022 , work=

, date=14 September 1960

Third marriage

In March 1986, Joan married lastly

, a newspaper magnate. They had been friends for more than thirty years. They lived at

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, the Camrose home in Hampshire.{{cite news, title=A press baron of his time, author=

Lord Camrose William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose Deputy lieutenant, DL (23 June 1879 – 15 June 1954) was a British peer and newspaper publisher. Life and career Berry was born in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, the second of three sons of Mary Ann (Rowe) an ...

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, date=4 March 1995, page=39 After his death in 1995, she was known as the Dowager Viscountess Camrose, also known as Joan, Viscountess Camrose.{{cite news , title=Joan Viscountess Camrose. Society hostess whose son became the Aga Khan before she married a press baron , url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110651849/joan-viscountess-camrose/ , access-date=3 October 2022 , work=

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, date=29 April 1997 , pages=25

References

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