Khosrow Jahanbani
{{Short description|Iranian royal (1941–2014)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}}
{{Infobox royalty
| image =
| full name = Khosrow Khoban Mirza Jahanbani
| dynasty = Qajar
| father = Amanullah Jahanbani
| mother = Helen Kasminsky
| spouse = {{marriage|Shahnaz Pahlavi|1971}}
| issue = {{ubl|Keykhosrow Jahanbani|Fawzia Jahanbani}}
| birth_date = 27 February 1941
| birth_place = Tehran, Pahlavi Iran
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2014|4|16|1941|2|27}}
| death_place = Geneva, Switzerland
| place of burial= Geneva
}}
Khosrow Jahanbani (27 February 1941 – 16 April 2014) was the son of Iranian general Amanullah Jahanbani and second husband of Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi.
Early life
Jahanbani was born on 27 February 1941 and was the youngest son of Iranian general Amanullah Jahanbani, great-grandson of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.{{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}} His mother, Helen Kasminsky, was from the Russian aristocracy in Petrograd. His grandfather served as governor of Azerbaijan. He was the younger brother of Nader Jahanbani who was executed in February 1979 after the Iranian revolution.{{cite book|author=Homa Katouzian|title=The Persians. Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern|year=2010|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven, CT; London|isbn=978-0-300-16932-4|page=329|url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.12987/9780300161229-fm/html|s2cid=246129440
|doi=10.12987/9780300161229|author-link=Homa Katouzian}}
Personal life and death
Jahanbani and Shahnaz Pahlavi, the eldest daughter of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, became close friends in Switzerland where the former was studying arts.{{cite news|title=عکس:فوزیه جهانبانی نوه محمدرضا پهلوی!|access-date=7 August 2021|work=Bourse News|date=6 June 2014|url=https://www.boursenews.ir/fa/news/124982/%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%87-%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D9%86%D9%88%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B6%D8%A7-%D9%BE%D9%87%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C
|language=fa}} They married at the Iranian Embassy in Paris in February 1971. In a publication of the Islamic Republic of Iran it is argued that the marriage was not supported by Shahnaz Pahlavi's father, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.{{cite book|editor1=Gholamali Haddad Adel|editor2=Mohammad Jafar Elmi|editor3=Hassan Taromi-Rad|title=Pahlavi Dynasty: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jRZ227eqm4sC&pg=PA172|year=2012|publisher=EWI Press Ltd.|page=146
|isbn=978-1-908433-01-5|location=London}}
They had two children; a son, Keykhosrow, (born 20 November 1971) and a daughter, Fawzia, (born 1973).{{cite news|title=Shahnaz Pahlavi|url=http://www.parstimes.com/history/pahlavi/shahnaz/|access-date=8 April 2022|work=Pars Times}}
Jahanbani died on 16 April 2014 after combating cancer for several years.{{cite web|work=Lenziran|access-date=23 April 2014
|url=http://lenziran.com/2014/04/20/husband-of-princess-shahnaz-pahlavi-khosrow-jahanbani-passed-away/|title=Husband of Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi Khosrow Jahanbani passed away|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140424151247/http://lenziran.com/2014/04/20/husband-of-princess-shahnaz-pahlavi-khosrow-jahanbani-passed-away/|archive-date=24 April 2014|url-status=usurped}}
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