[1] Pahlavi was born on 5 October 1926 as the third child of Reza Shah and Esmat Dowlatshahi.
[2] He enrolled in Tehran's military school but following his father's abdication in 1941 he moved with him to South Africa.
[3] This marriage also ended in divorce and Eghbal later married Pahlavi's nephew Shahriar Shafiq.
[5] His relations with his half-brother and the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, became strained due to his involvement in opium trafficking business.
[6] After the Iranian Revolution, Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi moved to the United States.