Yvette Labrousse
Yvette Blanche Labrousse , later Begum Om Habibeh or Begum Aga Khan (born February 15, 1906 in Sète , † July 1, 2000 in Le Cannet ) was the wife of Aga Khan III. , the spiritual leader of the Ismailis .
Yvette Labrousse, daughter of a tram driver and a seamstress, was named "Miss Lyon " in 1929 and won the title of " Miss France " in 1930 . On October 16, 1944 , she married the spiritual leader of the Islamic group of Ismailis, Aga Khan III. (1877-1957). For him it was the fourth marriage.
The marriage was considered very happy despite the age difference of 29 years. "The Begum " was a popular object of the tabloids in the 1940s and 1950s. She has been reported in countless articles, although her married life was without scandals - in contrast to that of the Aga Khan's eldest son, Prince Aly Khan , who married the American actress Rita Hayworth in the late 1940s and left after a few stormy years of marriage.
After the death of the Aga Khan, Begum had a mausoleum built near his villa in Aswan, Upper Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile near Elephantine Island . Until her own death, she had a red rose placed on her husband's marble coffin every day.
As a widow, Begum turned to charitable work within the Aga Khan Foundation . She was buried next to her husband. At her request, her jewelry worth over 5 million euros was auctioned off in Geneva for the benefit of people in need.
She was a big fan of Richard Wagner's music and was a guest of honor at the Bayreuth Festival from the 1950s to 1980s .
literature
- Begum Aga Khan , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 48/2000 of November 20, 2000, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Begum Aga Khan III in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Personal details : Begum Aga Khan . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1959, pp. 62 ( online ).
- ↑ Solti's beautiful, gruesome failure . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1983, pp. 126-128 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Labrousse, Yvette |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Labrousse, Yvette Blanche; Begum Om Habibeh; Begum Aga Khan; Mata Salamat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | fourth wife of the third Aga Khan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sète , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 2000 |
| Place of death | Geneva |