I find the tale of Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan to be interesting.
Please post pics or information that you may have on their short time together.
Here's a quote from a bio
"she met and fell in love with Prince Aly Khan, the playboy son of Prince Aga Khan III, the spiritual leader of millions of Moslems. Hayworth and Khan were married in 1949, and had a daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan. In early 1953, Hayworth and Khan were divorced "
Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Salomone Al-Hussein Shah Aga Khan
Married May 27, 1949 After rocky marriages to promoter Edward Judson and Orson Welles, and romances with Victor Mature, Howard Hughes and Tony Martin among others, the 31-year-old star of
The Loves of Carmen (1948) and
The Lady from Shanghai (1948) married the 38-year-old playboy prince, son of the Aga Khan. They had met at a party in Cannes, and Ali pursued Rita obsessively, delivering roses to her hotel room every day and later following her back to America, renting a house across the street from hers. Before long — and despite outcry from various moral groups offended by the idea of a Catholic woman dating a Muslim man — their romance was made public.
The wedding took place less than a year after their initial meeting, in the small town of Vallauris in the south of France. The couple rode back to Ali’s chateau in a white Cadillac convertible, followed by hundreds of well-wishers, to a reception that epitomized the marriage of royalty and Hollywood. Thirty thousand roses decorated the house, while the swimming pool had been filled with eau de Cologne, upon which floated white gardenias that spelled out the initials of the happy couple. Seven months after the wedding, the couple’s only child, Yasmin, was born. However, the happiness was not to last. After only two years, reluctant to take on the role of Ismaili princess and frustrated by her husband’s lack of interest in her as anything but a Hollywood star, Rita headed back to America to renew her acting career. Of the relationship, she has been quoted as saying: "I think what he loved in me was that I was the physical manifestation of his concept of beauty … since I lacked confidence in myself, it seemed incredible at the time that this exceptional man could be interested in me. It was a beautiful dream that couldn’t last."
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