Prince Aly Salomone Shah

1911 - 1960  (48 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 9 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Aly Salomone Shah
  Prefix	Prince
  Birth	13 Jun 1911	Torino, Piemonte, Italia
  In the archives of the Turin town hall (Italy), there exists a record of the birth of Aly Salomone from the union of an unmarried 22 years old Teresa, with 34 years old His Highness the Aga Khan.
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	playboy
  Death	12 May 1960	Paris, Île-de-France, France
  Siblings	1 Sibling
  1. Giussepe Mahdi Shah,   b. Abt 1909   d. 1911  (Age 2 years) + 2. Prince Aly Salomone Shah,   b. 13 Jun 1911, Torino, Piemonte, Italia d. 12 May 1960, Paris, Île-de-France, France  (Age 48 years) ▻ Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller,  m. 18 May 1936 ;   Rita Hayworth,  m. 27 May 1949 ;   Ann;   Pamela Beryl Digby;   Thelma Morgan
  Person ID	I77962	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2008

  
  

  Father	Aga Khan Muhammad Shah, III,   b. 2 Nov 1877   d. 11 Jul 1957 (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Cleope Teresa Magliano,   b. 1889   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1908
  Family ID	F32187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller,   b. 22 Apr 1908   d. Abt 28 Apr 1997 (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	18 May 1936	Paris, Île-de-France, France
  Prince Aly eagerly waited for the High Court's decree nisi to be made absolute. On May 11, 1936 the decree became absolute and Joan, the daughter of a former ADC to the Viceroy of India and a mother of one male child, was free to remarry. Within eight days, on May 18, Aly and Joan got married in a Town Hall of Paris. The couple got remarried at the Paris Mosque. At the wedding an announcement was made that the couple would remarry in India. The idea of the third marriage ceremony, to be performed before the followers, had to be abandoned because the Honourable Joan, who was now Princess Joan, was already pregnant, records Mihir Bose. In less than seven months of their marriage, Prince Joan gave birth to Karim.
  Divorce	1940
  Children	+ 1. Living   2. Prince Amyn El Husseni
  Family ID	F21684	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2008

  
  

  Family 2	Rita Hayworth,   b. 17 Oct 1918, Nursery and Child's Hospital, New York, USA d. 14 May 1987, Manhattan (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	27 May 1949
  Divorce	26 Jan 1953
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F119093	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2001

  
  

  Family 3	Ann   d. 1975
  Family ID	F147601	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2002

  
  

  Family 4	Pamela Beryl Digby,   b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park d. 5 Feb 1997, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F66907	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

  Family 5	Thelma Morgan,   b. 23 Aug 1904, Luzern, Confoederatio Helvetica d. 29 Jan 1970 (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F322221	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2018

  
  

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  		Birth - 13 Jun 1911 - Torino, Piemonte, Italia Marriage - 18 May 1936 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Death - 12 May 1960 - Paris, Île-de-France, France  = Link to Google Earth
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  Lived to be a legendary playboy. In 1930, Aga Khan sent Aly Khan to Syria to visit his followers with his special `Holy Farman'. The Farman pronounced; "We are sending our son to you. Consider his arrival as my arrival. We are appointing our Prince as our `Wali-ahad' meaning, the successor to our throne." Members of the Syrian Jama'at took Bay'ah (oath of allegiance) at the hand of their future Imam and offered Nazrana (gifts). Almost every magazine and home of Ismailis in India and Africa had a photo of young Prince dressed in white Arab dress riding a white Arabian horse, taken during his visit to Syria, with captions "H.S.H. Prince Aly Khan Heir Apparent to Mowlana Hazar Imam". Within 50 years, the infallible Mowlana Hazar Imam realized that his `Holy Farman' had to be recanted. The beloved "Wali-ahad" did not live a life expected of a future Imam. In the June 1995 issue of an American magazine `Vanity Fair', there is a spellbinding twelve page article `The Goddess and the Playboy' describing the "relentless pursuit of speed, sport, and women" by Prince Aly Khan. Aga Khan by his Will document, without making a mention of his earlier pronouncement, made Aly Khan's son Karim as his successor to the throne of Imamate. This recantation surprised his followers all over the world. They began asking questions; Did the infallible Mowlana Hazar Imam really erred? Can the 1400 years old Ismaili tradition and the Shiah Law "that the issue of a son is not an heir if there be a son alive", be broken? According to the deep rooted Ismaili tradition and uncompromising conviction, Hazar Imam's "Holy Farmans" are to be reckoned as the verses of the "Speaking Qur'an". At any given time and place they can supersede the verses of the so called "Silent or Book Qur'an". Based upon this conviction, the majority of the Agakhani Ismailis have done away with most essential basic Qur'anic Laws, such as; performing of greater or lesser ablutions before praying, facing towards qiblah while praying, takbir al-ihram, qiyam, ruku, salat al-jum'ah, physical fasting during the month of Ramadhan, hajj as well as the "Oneness" of Kalimah Shahadah. Biographer Willie Frischauer records in his book `The Aga Khans'; "Bettina (one of Aly's several girl friends) wrote: `To Aly it seemed that his father's preference for his son was a kind of public humiliation for him...He was never quite the same from that day on." When Aly Khan declared that he too had taken the Bay'ah of his own son Karim as his "Hazar Imam"; Karim became the spiritual father of his own father, according to the Ismaili tradition. In 1960, the mortified Aly Khan was killed in a tragic car crash. He suffered crushed chest, fractured skull, broken neck and legs in that fatal accident.