Shahnaz Pahlavi

Princess Schahnaz Pahlavi (Persian شهناز پهلوی, born October 27, 1940 in Tehran, Iran) is the only child of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his first wife, Fausia of Egypt.

As a female succession was not foreseen in the Iranian Constitution, Fausia but her husband gave birth to any more children, this led in 1948 to the divorce of their parents. The Shah then married Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiary, but this marriage remained childless, so that the Shah after another divorce in 1958 Farah Diba married.

Schahnaz Pahlavi was married to Ardeshir Zahedi, who once Iranian Foreign Minister and twice Iranian Ambassador to the United States of America was (1957-1964 and 1972-1979 ). The couple has a daughter, Princess Zahra Mahnaz also Schahanez ( born December 2, 1958).

In February 1971 Schahnaz Khosrow Jahanbani married. They have a son, Kai Khosrau (* 1971) and a daughter named Fausieh (* 1973). Schahnaz emigrated in 1979, as all the family members of the Pahlavi, during the Islamic Revolution. Since then she has lived in Switzerland.

She is the half sister of Cyrus Reza Pahlavi, Farahnaz Pahlavi, the late Ali Reza Pahlavi and the late Leila Pahlavi.