Word: alis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cozy glimpse of a madcap prince's private life, Ali Khan's longtime (19 years) chauffeur and bodyguard, Emrys Williams, disclosed in his memoirs that life with Ali was rarely dull. Things hummed more than usual during Ali's high-octane fling at marriage with mercurial Cinemactress Rita Hayworth. Recalls Williams: "The day after she had dined ... at the home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, I realized that Rita was determined to remodel the Château de l'Horizon on the lines of the Windsor establishment. Prince Ali's maids...
...with shaking hands as he stood on the tarmac of Teheran's Mehrabad airport one evening last week. At ten-minute intervals, planes glided in to land. None of them brought the news the Shah was waiting to hear: word of his missing brother, 32-year-old Prince Ali Reza, heir to the Iranian throne...
...Prince Ali had gone up north to hunt, and to look in on his plantations near the Soviet frontier, but planned to return to Teheran for the Shah's 35th birthday celebration. When he arrived at the airstrip at Gurgan, the pilot of his single-engined Piper pointed to the snow-capped mountains wreathed in ominous clouds, but the prince was anxious to start home. Before he took off, Ali did an act of kindness: into his plane he loaded an old peasant ill with tuberculosis, who needed immediate hospitalization. Then the plane, carrying prince and peasant, headed...
...Ali's death leaves Iran without an heir presumptive. The Pahlevi dynasty began only with the Shah's father, a onetime army sergeant who seized the throne. The Shah himself has no sons. His five half brothers are the sons of princesses of the old rival Kajar dynasty, and are constitutionally barred from royal succession. Parliament can, however, shut its eyes and grant Iranian "quality" to one of the half brothers, making him eligible for the throne...
...Died. Ali Reza, 32, younger brother of the Shah of Persia, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, and heir presumptive to the Iranian throne; in a plane crash; in Iran's Elburz Mountains (see FOREIGN NEWS...