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By this marriage, he had one son, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, in 1933-2003.
* 1933 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-born Pakistani diplomat ( UN High Commissioner for Refugees ) ( d. 2003 )
* 2003 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( b. 1933 )
* Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1965 – 1978
** Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French U. N. High Commissioner for Refugees ( d. 2003 )
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan KCSS (,, 1933 – 2003 ) served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1966 to 1978, during which he reoriented the agency's focus beyond Europe and prepared it for an explosion of complex refugee issues.
Prince Sadruddin died of cancer at the age of 70, and was buried in Switzerland.
After three years of post-graduate research at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Prince Sadruddin began a lifelong career of international service.
Together with his father Prince Sadruddin traveled widely in Muslim countries, coming into contact with his Islamic roots from a young age.
Prince Sadruddin joined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) in 1958, and became the Executive Secretary to its International Action Committee for the Preservation of Nubia in 1961.
Prince Sadruddin began as a Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) in 1959 with a focus on World Refugee Year ( 1959 – 1960 ).
In January 1966, Prince Sadruddin was appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees after serving for three years as Deputy High Commissioner.
In 1972, Prince Sadruddin played a key role in finding new homes for tens of thousands of South Asians expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin.
Despite this, Prince Sadruddin was able to successfully negotiate with Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz for the establishment of a UN relief program for tens of thousands of Shia Muslims trapped in worsening conditions in the marshlands of southern Iraq.
Prince Sadruddin was nominated and passed over twice for the post of UN Secretary-General.
In 1977, Prince Sadruddin, together with Denis de Rougemont and a few other friends, established a Geneva-based think-tank, Groupe de Bellerive ( named after Bellerive, the municipality where he lived in Geneva ), and a non-profit organisation, the Bellerive Foundation.
Prince Sadruddin was motivated in part by what he called " ecological refugees ", who were forced to leave regions that could no longer sustain them due to desertification and other environmental changes.
As a resident of Switzerland, Prince Sadruddin was concerned about the impact of insensitive tourist development and deforestation on the European Alps.
A long-standing trustee and former Vice-President of the World Wide Fund for Nature International, Prince Sadruddin led Bellerive's support for threatened species.
In May 2006, the activities of the Bellerive Foundation were merged into the Geneva-based Aga Khan Foundation ( founded in 1967 by Prince Sadruddin's nephew Karim Aga Khan IV ) to form the Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Fund for the Environment.
The fund concentrates its activities in six areas that were important to Prince Sadruddin: environmental education ; natural resource management in fragile zones ; nature parks and wildlife reserves ; environmentally and culturally appropriate tourism infrastructure ; environmental health ; and research.
Prince Sadruddin died of cancer in Boston, Massachusetts, on 2003, coincidentally, the same day as his elder half-brother Prince Aly Khan had died 43 years earlier.

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By June 19, 1788, he had presented himself to its Commander in Chief, the Governor of the Southern Provinces, the Director of the War College -- The Prince.
As his second in command The Prince had Marshal Repnin, one-time Ambassador to Poland.
As Littlepage noted: `` A complete picture of Prince Potemkin may be had in his 1788 operations.
To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.
In Nara I stayed at the hotel where the Prince and Princess had stayed on their honeymoon.
If the administration ever had any ideas that it could find an acceptable alternative to Prince Souvanna Phouma, whom it felt was too trusting of Communists, it gradually had to relinquish them.
He declared on March 25 that the United States had erred a year and a half ago by `` encouraging the removal '' of Prince Souvanna.
It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.
They had two sons: Prince Giuseppe Mahdi Khan ( d. February 1911 ) and Prince Ali Solomone Khan ( 1911 – 1960 )
In spite of this, it had been agreed with the Serbian Government that Prince Mirko of Montenegro, who was married to Natalija Konstantinovic, the granddaughter of Princess Anka Obrenovic, an aunt of King Milan, would be proclaimed Crown Prince of Serbia in the event that the marriage of King Alexander and Queen Draga was childless .< ref name =" njeg ">
The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.
Afonso, born in 1109, took the title of Prince after taking the throne of his mother, supported by the generality of the Portuguese nobility who disliked the alliance between Galicia and Portugal Countess Theresa had come to, marrying a second time the most powerful Galician count.
Alfonso was the eldest son of Prince Francisco de Asis de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Queen Isabel II, whose reign was marked by a constant political crisis which had several causes.
In Peru and Rio de la Plata many powerful figures proposed an American Monarchy such as those who wanted an independent Peruvian king of the still alive Inca Royal House, and those who requested a Prince of the Spanish house of Bourbon to come and rule directly in Lima, Mexico City or Bogota, as the Portuguese House of Orleans-Braganza had done in Rio de Janeiro.
Nevertheless, when Prince Vladimir II Yaroslavich of Halych, who had been expelled from his country by his subjects, fled to Hungary seeking for assistance in 1188, King Béla III had him arrested and occupied his principality and he invested Andrew with Halych.
In the beginning of the next year, the child Danylo was again expelled from Halych but Andrew denied to give assistance to him because the child prince's opponent, Prince Volodymyr III Igorevych had bribed him.
In August 1219, his younger son, Coloman, who had been crowned King of Halych, was expelled from his kingdom by Prince Mstilav of Novgorod.
Andrew had to make peace with the Prince of Novgorod and he also engaged his youngest son, Andrew with one of his opponent's daughter.
However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

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