Khosrow Jahanbani (27 February 1941 – 16 April 2014) was the son of Iranian general

Amanullah Jahanbani Amanollah Jahanbani ( fa, امان ‌الله جهانبانى; 1891 – 1 February 1974) was a member of the Qajar dynasty and a senior general of Reza Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi. Early life and education Jahanbani was born in 1895. He was the gr ...

and second husband of Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi.

Early life

Jahanbani was born on 27 February 1941 and was the youngest son of Iranian general

, great grandson of

Fath Ali Shah Fath-Ali Shah Qajar ( fa, فتحعلى‌شاه قاجار, Fatḥ-ʻAli Šâh Qâjâr; May 1769 – 24 October 1834) was the second Shah (king) of Qajar Iran. He reigned from 17 June 1797 until his death on 24 October 1834. His reign saw the irr ...

. His mother, Helen Kasminsky, was from the

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

aristocracy in Petrograd. His grandfather served as governor of

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

. He was the younger brother of

Nader Jahanbani '' Sepahbod'' Nader Jahanbani ( fa, نادر جهانبانی, Nāder-e Jahānbānī; 16 April 1928–13 March 1979) was an Iranian general, distinguished fighter pilot of Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) and the deputy chief of the IIAF under M ...

who was executed in February 1979 after 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 ...

Personal life and death

Jahanbani and Shahnaz Pahlavi, the eldest daughter of Shah

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monoth ...

, became close friends in Switzerland where the former was studying arts. They married at the Iranian Embassy in Paris in February 1971. In a publication of the

Islamic Republic of Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

it is argued that the marriage was not supported by Shahnaz Pahlavi's father, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. They had two children; a son, Keykhosrow, (born 20 November 1971) and a daughter, Fawzia, (born 1973). Jahanbani died on 16 April 2014 after combating cancer for several years.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jahanbani, Khosrow 20th-century Iranian people 21st-century Iranian people 1941 births 2014 deaths Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in Switzerland Iranian emigrants to Switzerland Iranian people of Circassian descent Iranian people of Russian descent Qajar princes