LONDON Joan Viscountess Camrose, mother of the Aga Khan,spiritual leader of the world's 15 million Ismaili Muslims, has diedat age 89.
The cause of her death Friday was not given.
Born Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller, the daughter of an actress andthe 3rd Lord Churston, she married well three times: first to amember of the Guinness brewing family, then to Prince Aly Khan, andfinally to Lord Camrose.Her first marriage, to Loel Guinness, ended in divorce in 1936.She then married Aly Khan, son of the immensely rich Aga Khan III.The couple had two sons, Princes Karim and Amyn. Karim waschosen to succeed his grandfather as Aga Khan IV in 1957.Aly Khan had by that time divorced his wife to marry actressRita Hayworth. But Princess Joan remained on good terms with herfather-in-law, and when her son became Aga Khan, she accompanied himto his accession ceremonies in Africa and India.
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