Throne of Gold: The Life of the Aga Khan: Lives of the Aga Khans

by Anne Edwards (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $4.67

  The story of three generations of the (Aga) Khan dynasty, the spiritual head of the Ismaili Muslims with 20 million followers in India, Pakistan, East Africa and Central Asia. This book concentrates on three members of the Khan dynasty. Firstly, The Aga Khan III, the third heriditary ruler of the Muslim Ismaili Sect who was born to wealth and power in 1887 and who attempted to secure Muslim support for British Rule in India, most notably by founding the All-India Muslim League (1906) of which he was its President. The Aga Khan was a successful horse-owner and a friend of the Queen Mary, and became President of the League of Nations. Secondly, the book deals with Prince Aly Khan, the soldier, diplomat and playboy. His second wife was Rita Hayworth, but he had many other affairs and was killed in a car crash in 1960. Third and finally, the book deals with Prince Kharin, Aga Khan IV, who married a British fashion model, Lady Sarah Crichton-Stuart, in 1969.

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.27

  The Aga Khan III, born in Karachi in 1877, was a dedicated anglophile and champion of the British empire, who took his religious duties seriously but, possessing no political territories of his own, became famous for his estates and private hotel suites in Europe, for his many European mistresses, and for his fabulous stable of racehorses in England, Ireland, France and India. Aly Khan, his son by his second wife, was a soldier, diplomat, businessman, playboy, amateur jockey and a fine judge of horseflesh. His second wife was the Hollywood love goddess Rita Hayworth, and he had legendary affairs with a string of well-known actresses. Passed over as Aga Khan in favour of Karim, his son by his first wife, Aly Khan was killed in a car crash three years later in 1960. Karim, the current Aga Khan 4, is a Harvard trained tycoon.