Just a few days ago, it was proceeded, in Lisbon, to the opening of Karim’s will to Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, who died at 88 at the beginning of this February. It stipulated that His first male child, Prince Rahim al-Hussaini, was appointed Aga Khan V And, therefore, 50th magnet of the “[musulmanes chiitas] Ismailis living in more than 35 countries “, as they have explained since its foundation. This long dynasty of kings – without any kingdom – that claim to descend from the prophet Muhammad and that spiritually govern the life of the between 12 and 15 million people of His cult, thus found a new visible head, which has also turned out to be one of the people not only richer, but also more hermetic in the world.
The saga, therefore, continues without surprises. The Aga Khan IV has decided to continue with the tradition and his son, who already worked side by side with him and was very involved in family businesses, will happen to him. I couldn’t, since the imanato only inherit men, Appointing its firstborn, Zahra, although it is true that Rahim has been preparing almost since his birth for this moment.
His father, close friend of King Juan Carlos I – given that they studied together at the Marianista boarding school in Friburg, in Germany – and Queen Elizabeth II of England, who came to give him honors of a state of state of a head of state In his views to Buckingham, He also gives him the control of the immense family fortune, Very difficult to estimate, but is calculated in billions of dollars.
At 53, Rahim Al-Hussaini has always been a man with a clear tendency to follow in his father’s footsteps. Born in Geneva, in Switzerland, in 1971, he grew up with his brothers – in addition to Zahra, he has two others: Hussain, nature photographer and Aly, director of photography – and His mother, the British model Sarah Croker Poolewhich adopted the title of Begum (“Princess”) Salima after their marriage in 1969, between the Alps, Paris, Saint-Mortiz (the winters) and Sardinia (Los Veranos). His father would end up divorcing in 1995 to later marry the German singer Gabriele Thyssen, the Inaara Begum.
He is accustomed, therefore, to treat the aristocracy and European royalty and his father’s right hand. That is why their vital decisions for their studies were not strange: first, he attended literature at the prestigious Brown University in the United States, and later, in 2006, he complemented his training with A business management program in Barcelona And that entered the IESE, the Business School from the University of Navarra.
Since then, he has held various positions of responsibility in the AKDN, the AGA Kahn Development Network, a network of various institutions created in 1967 and with which the family Try to contribute to the development of the most disadvantaged countries in Africa and Asia, since it has an annual budget of around one billion dollars, as well as a significant presence worldwide. This work, in addition, the complement with the one within the AGA Khan Foundation, where it supervises and executes common plans oriented to the preservation of the environment and the fight against climate change.
Likewise, he has never wanted to be in the shadow of his father, hence 15 years ago he decided to set up an Islamic Studies campus, as well as his help was indispensable for Prince Guillermo of England to carry out his most ambitious project : The Earthshot award. Of his father, in addition, he also inherits the task of managing hospitals, universities and the continuity of the Aga Khan Award of Architecture.
On the other hand, in your personal life Rahim found love in the American supermodel Kendra Spears, who used to compare with Cindy Crawford for a moon just above the upper lip. With her, which would leave her meteoric race on the catwalks when she met him after Naomi Campbell presented them, he married in 2013, in a spectacular ceremony on the shores of Lake Geneva, in Bellerive’s castle, she became Princess Salwa As soon as it became Islam.
After the wedding, which was attended by Infanta Cristina – they are a friend of her sister and who works in fact at the Aga Khan Foundation – and that took place a few months after starting to leave, they would arrive, they would arrive His two children, born in 2015 and 201: Princes Irfan and Sinan, both candidates to inherit the title and be Aga Khan in the future. According to British media, however, the couple divorced in 2022, without giving any statement or explaining the reasons. It was not the first time in the family, yes, that someone married a model or model and ended in divorce: his grandfather already married, in second nuptials, with Rita Hayworth.
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