He was the eldest son of the noted playboy Prince Aly Khan and his first wife, Joan (Yarde-Buller) Khan, a descendant of British aristocracy. His younger brother, Amyn Aga Khan, was born the next ...

Considered by his followers to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan ... the son of Joan Yarde-Buller and Aly Khan, and spent part of his childhood ...

when he unexpectedly inherited the title of Aga Khan from his grandfather. His father, Prince Aly Khan, was bypassed in the line of succession, with the Aga Khan III declaring: ‘in view of the altered ...