Sultan Sir Jamshid bin Abdullah Al Said, ( ar, جمشيد بن عبد الله; born 16 September 1929), is a

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i royal who was the last reigning

Sultan of Zanzibar The sultans of Zanzibar ( ar, سلاطين زنجبار) were the rulers of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, which was created on 19 October 1856 after the death of Said bin Sultan, who had ruled Oman and Zanzibar as the sultan of Oman since 1804. Th ...

before being deposed in the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution.

Biography

Jamshid ruled

from 1 July 1963 to 12 January 1964. On 10 December 1963, Zanzibar received its independence from the

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as a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth under Jamshid. This state of affairs was short lived and he was overthrown by the

Zanzibar Revolution The Zanzibar Revolution () occurred in January 1964 and led to the overthrow of the Sultan of Zanzibar and his mainly Arab government by local Africans. Zanzibar was an ethnically diverse state consisting of a number of islands off the east co ...

. He fled into exile firstly to

Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of ...

but was not allowed to settle permanently. He later moved to the

, settling in

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with his wife and children. While his children and siblings all settled in Oman in the 1980s, the Omani government continually denied Jamshid's requests to join them, citing security reasons. Their stance changed in September 2020 when after over 50 years in the United Kingdom, Jamshid's request to live in Oman was granted by the government of the new Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tarik, to return to his ancestral land as a member of the

Al-Said The House of Busaid (, ), also known as Al Said dynasty, is the current ruling royal house of the Oman, and former ruling royal house of the Omani Empire (from 1744 to 1856), Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (1856 to 1970) and the Sultanate of Za ...

royal family only, rather than a titular Sultan.

Honours

National

* Sovereign of the

Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar The Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar (Wisam al-Kawkab al-Durri al-Zanzibari) is a decoration awarded by the Sultan of Zanzibar for meritorious services and since The Order of Independence was created in 1963 it is reserved for the persons r ...

(Wisam al-Kawkab al-Durri al-Zanzibari) since 1 July 1963 (1st class on 30 March 1960). * Founder and Sovereign of the

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(Wissam al-Istiqlal) in five classes on 9 November 1963.

Foreign

*Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) on 29 December 1963. * Knight Grand Collar of the Royal Order of the Drum ( Rwanda).Guidance for Honours in the ''De Jure'' Kingdom of Rwanda
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Ancestry

References

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