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The Aga Khan IV is the eldest son of Prince Aly Khan (1911–1960), and his first wife, Princess Taj-ud-dawlah Aga Khan, formerly Joan Yarde-Buller (1908–1997), the eldest daughter of the British peer John Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 13 December 1936, Prince Karim was declared healthy despite being born ...
Prince Rahim Aga Khan was born on 12 October 1971, in Geneva, the eldest son of Prince Karim Aga Khan and his first wife Princess Salimah Aga Khan. [1]Prince Rahim received his secondary education at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (1990) and graduated from Brown University, Rhode Island, U.S. with a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature awarded in 1995.
She married, secondly, Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, son of Prince Aly Khan and Hon. Princess Taj-ud-dawlah Aga Khan, in 1969. During her marriage to the Aga Khan, her official name was Her Highness The Begum Aga Khan, although she remained informally known as Sally. Following their divorce in 1995, she kept the title of "Princess" (but losing the ...
Inaara Aga Khan, formerly Begum Inaara Aga Khan (born Gabriele Renate Homey; formerly Thyssen; 1 April 1963), also previously known as Princess Inaara Aga Khan, was the second wife of the Aga Khan IV, the 49th Imam of the Nizari branch of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims; from May 1998 to March 2014, she held the title Begum Aga Khan.
A few days after the divorce from Guinness was effective, on 18 May 1936, in Paris, Joan Yarde-Buller married Prince Aly Khan. Before the wedding, Yarde-Buller converted to Islam and took the name "Taj-ud-dawlah", meaning "Crown of the Realm". [12] [13] [14] Yarde-Buller and Khan had two sons: Aga Khan IV (b. 1936) [15] Prince Amyn Aga Khan (b ...
Noorani family. The Noorani family is a term used to refer to the immediate family of the Imām of the Nizari Ismāʿīli Shia Muslims, commonly known by the title of Aga Khan. [1] By convention and custom its members and descendants in the male line are titled Prince and Princess, and as such it can be regarded as a royal family, although only ...
Princess Zahra Aga Khan is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and also sits on the board of several of its affiliated structures, including the Aga Khan Foundation, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance and the Aga Khan Schools.
Aly Muhammad Aga Khan was born on March 7, 2000, in Paris, France. His father, current Nizari Ismailis Imam Karim Aga Khan, is the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network. His mother, Gabriele Renate Homey, a member of the Thyssen family, is a lawyer of German descent. [2] His paternal grandmother was Joan Yarde-Buller ...