Hamid Reza Pahlavi

Hamid Reza Pahlavi
House Pahlavi dynasty
Father Reza Shah
Mother Esmat Dowlatshahi
Born 4 July 1932
Tehran, Iran
Died July 1992 (aged 59–60)
Tehran, Iran
Burial Behesht-e Zahra

Hamid Reza Pahlavi (4 July 1932 – July 1992) was Reza Shah's eleventh and last born child, and a half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran.

Early life and education

Hamid Reza Pahlavi was born on 4 July 1932. He was the youngest on of Reza Shah and his fourth and favourite wife, Esmat Dowlatshahi.[1][2][3] His parents married in 1923.[1][4] His mother was a member of the Qajar dynasty.[5] Of both his parents he had four siblings: Abdul Reza Pahlavi, Ahmad Reza Pahlavi, Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi and Fatimeh Pahlavi.[6] They lived in the Marble palace in Tehran with their parents.[2]

He studied in the United States and in Tehran.[7]

Personal life

Hamid Reza married three times and had four children.[8] He first married to Minou Dowlatshahi in Tehran on March 1951.[9] 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).[10] In 1974 Hamid Reza married Doris Thomas, 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.[11]

Due to his scandalous life-style, Hamid Reza's title of prince was removed and the Shah banned him from the court.[11]

Later years and death

After the Iranian Revolution that overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Hamid Reza stayed in Iran and changed his name to Islami.[11] However, he was arrested as a vagrant in 1986.[10][12] He received a sentence of ten years in Evin prison on drug charges.[12] In an interview held in prison in 1989, Pahlavi however stated that he was sentenced for his family connections.[12] He also said that he was not treated badly in prison and "things could be worse".[12] Inmates in his prison cell included a former general and senior officials of the shah's regime.[12] On July 1992, while serving his sentence, he died of a heart attack.[7][13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Reza Shah Pahlavi". Iran Chamber Society. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Diana Childress (2011). Equal Rights Is Our Minimum Demand: The Women's Rights Movement in Iran 2005. Twenty-First Century Books. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-7613-7273-8. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  3. ↑ (ed.) Gholamali Haddad Adel, Mohammad Jafar Elmi, Hassan Taromi-Rad (1 October 2012). Pahlavi Dynasty: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. MIU Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-908433-01-5. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  4. ↑ Gholam Reza Afkhami (13 December 2008). The Life and Times of the Shah. University of California Press. p. 605. ISBN 978-0-520-94216-5. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Iranian Royal Jewels: Princess Fatimeh's Sunburst Tiara". Royal Jewels. 8 February 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  6. ↑ Edgar Burke Inlow (1 January 1979). Shahanshah: The Study of Monarchy of Iran. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 91. ISBN 978-81-208-2292-4. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Pahlavi Dynasty, Genealogy
  8. ↑ Predecessors and short history
  9. ↑ "Dowlatshahi family". Qajar Pages. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Nazak". Argentic. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Alam, Asadollah (1991). The Shah and I. London and New York: IB Tauris. p. 245. ISBN 1-85043-340-2.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 "Late Shah's brother interviewed in prison". The Indiana Gazette. 2 August 1989. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  13. ↑ "Hamid Reza Pahlavi". Orlando Sentinel. 15 July 1992. Retrieved 16 July 2013.