{{Short description|Iranian princess (born 1940)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox royalty | image = Princess Shahnaz of Iran.png | caption = Shahnaz in 1967 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|10|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Tehran, Imperial State of Iran | death_date = | death_place = | burial_place = | father = Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | mother = Fawzia of Egypt | spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Ardeshir Zahedi|1957|1964|reason=divorced}} |{{marriage|Khosrow Jahanbani|1971|2014|reason=died}}}} | issue = {{ubl|Zahra Mahnaz Zahedi | Keykhosrow Jahanbani | Fawzia Jahanbani}} | house = Pahlavi }} {{Iranian Imperial Family}} '''Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi''' ({{langx|fa|شهناز پهلوی}}; born 27 October 1940) is the first child of the former Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his first wife, Fawzia of Egypt.
==Early life and education== thumb|Princess Shahnaz with her parents, early 1940s Shahnaz Pahlavi was born in Tehran, Iran, on 27 October 1940, a year before the accession of her father to the throne.<ref name=bbcpersian>{{cite news|title=تابعیت مصری برای شهناز پهلوی، نخستین فرزند شاه سابق ایران|url=https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran/2013/12/131210_u08_egypt_shahnaz|access-date=7 August 2021|work=BBC|date=11 December 2013 |language=fa}}</ref> She is the only child of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his first wife Queen Fawzia.<ref>{{cite news|author=Diedre Charmody |title=Nixon forth to see Shah|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rXJVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uTwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1337,4899486&dq=shahnaz+pahlavi&hl=en |access-date=10 November 2012|newspaper=The Leader Post|date=27 July 1973|location=New York}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=A quick look at the Shah's life|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L5cyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gucFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4011,5239480&dq=shahnaz+pahlavi&hl=en|access-date=10 November 2012|newspaper=Lawrence Journal|date=28 July 1980|agency=Associated Press}}</ref> Her parents separated when she was five years old, with her remaining in Iran with her father, and divorced when she was eight years old, <ref>[https://www.news18.com/world/royal-blood-lonely-childhood-married-at-16-life-of-irans-forgotten-princess-sbhp-ws-l-9995563.html "Royal Blood, Lonely Childhood, Married At 16: Life Of Iran’s Forgotten Princess,"] News18, March 25, 2026.</ref>
Shahnaz is the paternal half-sister of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi, Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi and Princess Leila Pahlavi — the four children of the Shah by his third wife, Farah Pahlavi.<ref name=bbc01>{{cite news|title=Shah's daughter 'could not stand' exile|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1384839.stm|access-date=10 November 2012|work=BBC|date=12 June 2001}}</ref> Her maternal grandparents were King Fuad I and Queen Nazli of Egypt; and her paternal grandparents were Reza Shah and Queen Tadj ol-Molouk of Iran. She is also the niece of King Farouk I of Egypt and thus a cousin of the last Egyptian king, Fuad II.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.payvand.com/news/16/jan/1116.html|website=payvand.com|title=Ashraf Pahlavi: Portrait of a Persian Princess|access-date=13 November 2017|archive-date=14 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114041812/http://www.payvand.com/news/16/jan/1116.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Shahnaz Pahlavi was educated in a Belgian boarding school, the Lycée Léonie de Waha in Liège, Belgium, and then in Switzerland.<ref name=ostar>{{cite news|title=Only child of Shah of Iran will marry in simple rites|access-date=10 November 2012|newspaper=Ocala Star Banner|location=Tehran |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2QokAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2AQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1824,1472649&dq=ardeshir+zahedi&hl=en|date=10 October 1957|agency=Associated Press}}</ref>
==Personal life== [[File:Shahnaz Pahlavi & Ardeshir Zahedi.jpg|thumb|left|Princess Shahnaz and Ardeshir Zahedi, 1957]] Her father had plans for Shahnaz's marriage with King Faisal II of Iraq, which did not materialise due to her unwillingness.<ref>{{cite book|author=Banafsheh Keynoush|title=Saudi Arabia and Iran. Friends or Foes?|year=2016|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=New York|isbn=978-1-137-58939-2|page=68|doi=10.1007/978-1-137-58939-2|s2cid=156413085|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-58939-2}}</ref>
Her first marriage, at age 16, was to Ardeshir Zahedi on 11 October 1957, at Golestan Palace, Tehran.<ref name=ostar/> He was one-time Iranian foreign minister and twice Iranian ambassador to the United States (1957–64 and 1972–79).<ref name=ostar/><ref>{{cite news|title=Iran Shah's daughter to wed engineer in simple ceremony|newspaper=Lewiston Evening Journal|date=10 October 1957|location=Tehran |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZcdGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8vMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1761,3998465&dq=marble+palace+tehran&hl=en|access-date=23 July 2013|agency=Associated Press}}</ref> She and Zahedi first met in Germany in 1955.<ref name=ostar/> The couple have one daughter.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Milestones, Dec. 15, 1958|access-date=16 July 2013 |magazine=Time|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810777,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131151352/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810777,00.html|date=15 December 1958|archive-date=31 January 2011}}</ref> They divorced in 1964. thumb|Princess Shahnaz, 1960. Shahnaz later married Khosrow Jahanbani, the son of Iranian general Amanullah Jahanbani, in February 1971 at the Iranian embassy in Paris.<ref>{{cite web|title=Centers of Power in Iran |url=http://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/70712.pdf|work=CIA|access-date=5 August 2013|date=May 1972}}</ref> Their marriage lasted until Jahanbani's death on 13 April 2014.
During her father's reign, Shahnaz had investments in agricultural enterprises and assembly plants of a joint venture with Honda bicycles and motorcycles in Iran.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7X5VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5z4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1063,1948802&dq=abdul+reza+pahlavi&hl=en|access-date=4 November 2012|newspaper=The Leader Post|date=22 January 1979|agency=Associated Press|location=Tehran|title=105 Iranian films said controlled by royal family}}</ref>
==Later years== Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Shahnaz Pahlavi has lived in Switzerland.<ref name=bbc01/> She has Swiss citizenship.<ref name=bbcpersian/> In December 2013, she was granted Egyptian citizenship by the Egyptian government.<ref name=bbcpersian/>
==Honours== * Imperial Iran: Grand Cross of the Order of Aryamehr<ref>[http://www.pinterest.com/pin/107030928617796612/ Pinterest]</ref> * Imperial Iran: Grand Cross of the Order of the Pleiades, 1st class * Imperial Iran: 25th Anniversary medal * Imperial Iran: 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire
==Gallery== <gallery class="center"> Image:Cecil Beaton Photographs- Political and Military Personalities; Chahnaz, Princess of Iran, Fawzieh, Queen of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi CBM2404.jpg|Princess Shahnaz with her father Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and her mother Queen Fawzia. Photo by Cecil Beaton. Image:Mohammad Pahlavi Coronation.jpg|Princess Shahnaz (second from left) at the Coronation of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1967 </gallery>
==See also== *List of Iranian women royalty
==References== {{Reflist}}
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