Yasmine Pahlavi (,
née
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Etemad-Amini, Persian: ; born 26 July 1968) is the wife of
Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince of the
Imperial State of Iran
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.
Biography
Yasmine Etemad-Amini was born in Pars Hospital in
Tehran
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, Iran, on 26 July 1968.
She attended the private
Tehran Community School until the rising tensions in the late 1970s forced her family to leave Iran permanently. They settled in the
San Francisco
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area of California, where she attended and matriculated at
Notre Dame High School.
She is a graduate of
George Washington University
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, obtaining a BA degree in political science, and a juris doctor degree from its
Law School
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. She is a member of the Maryland Bar Association.
She worked for ten years as a staff attorney for Children's Law Center in Washington, D.C., representing the rights of at-risk and underprivileged youth. She was also the co-founder and a director of the Foundation for the Children of Iran. Founded in 1991, the purpose of the Foundation is to provide health care services to Iranian children or children of Iranian origin regardless of race, color, creed, religious or political affiliation. She resigned from her leadership role and any affiliation with the Foundation in February 2014. In November 2018, she announced that she had
breast cancer
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.
Marriage and children
Yasmine married
Reza Pahlavi on 12 June 1986 in
Greenwich, Connecticut
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. The couple had been dating for two years before their marriage. She was 17 at the time of her wedding and her husband was 25. (At the time, Connecticut did not have any age requirement for marriage.)
The couple have three daughters:
#Noor Pahlavi, born
#Iman Pahlavi, born
#Farah Pahlavi, born
The family lives in the United States.
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Yasmine
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1968 births
Living people
Iranian royalty
Iranian emigrants to the United States
Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
George Washington University Law School alumni
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences alumni
Pahlavi princesses
Princesses by marriage
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Royalty from Tehran
Crown princesses