Ali Reza Pahlavi I


Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi I was the second son of Reza Pahlavi, deposed Shah of Iran, and the brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He was a member of the Pahlavi dynasty.

Biography

Ali Reza Pahlavi studied political science at Harvard University. Following Reza Shah's deposition and exile, Ali Reza accompanied his father into exile in Mauritius and then into Johannesburg, South Africa.
He was married to Christiane Cholewska; they had a son, Patrick Ali Pahlavi but Christiane had a son since a previous marriage, Joachim Christian, born 15 September 1941. although no record of his parents' 20 November 1946 wedding in the 16th arrondissement of Paris is on official record there. The couple divorced in 1948.
Ali Reza died on 17 October 1954 in a plane crash in the Alborz Mountains.

Honours

National honours