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Article: THE PRINCESS AND THE MOVIE STAR
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 26, 1989
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NEW YORK - Princess Yasmin Aga Khan looks like a movie star and
reflects strict religious values, such as honor thy mother and thy
father.
Perhaps it's her heritage.
Her late mother was film actress Rita Hayworth, and her late
father was Prince Aly Khan. The princess' late grandfather, H.H.
Mohammed Sultan Shah Aga Khan, was the spiritual leader of the
Ismaili Moslems, a title now held by her half-brother, Karim Aga
Khan.
When the princess was 3, her parents were divorced. When she
was 10, her father died. Rita Hayworth, who died at 66 on May 15,
1987, suffered from Alzheimer's disease. With the help of nurses,
the princess cared for her mother round-the-clock in a Manhattan ...