Aly Khan

Prince Aly Khan (13 June 1911 - 12 May 1960), an "international playboy", was Vice-President of the United Nations General Assembly, and was the son of Prince Aga Khan III (1877-1957) and his second wife Teresa Ginetta Magliano.

He was born in Turin.

He married the Hon Joan Yarde Buller (1908-1997), daughter of the 3rd Baron Churston, who was the divorced wife of Loel Guinness, in Paris on 18 May 1936. During her marriage to Prince Aly Khan she adopted the Islamic name Tajudowlah, and was generally known as Princess Joan Aly Khan. They had two children, Karim and Amyn. In 1940, Prince Aly joined the French cavalry and served in the Middle East while Joan set up a home for their sons in Kenya and laboured at the Anglo-French Hospital in Cairo. They were divorced in 1949, and she subsequently married the second Viscount Camrose.

Karim subsequently was named as the Ismaili's 49th Imam, bypassing his father Aly, and is known as His Highness Prince Aga Khan IV.

On 27 May 1949 in Vallauris, France he married American actress Rita Hayworth, and by her had one daughter, Yasmin Aga Khan, born in 1949.

He died in Paris in 1960. His remains were removed to Damascus, Syria on 11 July 1972.