Hamid Reza Pahlavi | |
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Born | 4 July 1932 Tehran, Iran |
Died | 12 July 1992 (aged 60) Tehran, Iran |
Burial | Behesht-e Zahra |
House | Pahlavi dynasty |
Father | Reza Shah |
Mother | Esmat Dowlatshahi |
Hamid Reza Pahlavi (4 July 1932 – 12 July 1992) was Reza Shah's eleventh and last born child, and a half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran.
Hamid Reza Pahlavi was born on 4 July 1932. He was the youngest son of Reza Shah and his fourth and favourite wife, Esmat Dowlatshahi. His parents married in 1923. His mother was a member of the Qajar dynasty. Of both his parents he had four siblings: Abdul Reza Pahlavi, Ahmad Reza Pahlavi, Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi and Fatimeh Pahlavi. They lived in the Marble palace in Tehran with their parents.
He studied in the United States and in Tehran. While attending high school in Washington, D.C., (the Honeywell Foundation) in September 1947, he skipped school to take a train to Hollywood, California, to visit his brother "Makmud", who was studying at UCLA. He stated that he did so because his high school did not have girl students and he was homesick. He had acted similarly 3 months previously, leaving his high school in Newport, Rhode Island, to travel to Paris.
Hamid Reza married three times and had four children. He first married to Minou Dowlatshahi in Tehran on March 1951. Of this marriage he got a daughter: Niloufar Pahlavi (born 1953). In 1959 he married Homa Khamnei, by whom he had two children: Behzad Pahlavi (1957–1983) and Nazak Pahlavi (12 February 1958 – 27 December 1987). In 1974 Hamid Reza married Houri Khamnei, by whom he had one child: Ja'afar Pahlavi (born 1975).
One of his sons, Behzad, lived in the United Kingdom for a while, but he was brought by Shah Mohammad Reza to Iran and attended the military school in Tehran.