His Highness Karim Aga Khan IV (second right), accompanied by his wife the Begum Salimah (R), greets on June 3, 1979 Top Ville and his French jockey Yves Saint-Martin, at the Chantilly race course.

His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, who has died aged 88, combined his role as 49th Imam and spiritual leader of 12-15 million Ismailis – a mystical sect of Shia Islam – in more than 25 ...

He was married twice and had four children. His first wife, Princess Salimah Aga Khan, formerly Sarah Frances Croker Poole, was a British model whom he married in 1969.

Half-British prince Rahim al-Hussaini has been named the new Aga Khan, becoming the spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims and taking over a philanthropic empire worth $13 billion.

Zahra’s father, Prince Karim al-Husayni, the Aga Khan IV, passed away earlier this year at the age of 88. Revered not only as the 49th hereditary Imam of the world’s Shia Ismaili Muslims, but also as ...

Half-British prince Rahim al-Hussaini has been named the new Aga Khan, becoming the spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims and taking over a philanthropic empire worth $13 billion. Rahim ...