Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-80), king of homeland (1941-1979), was born in capital on October 26, 1919, the eldest son of Reza Shah. He completed his primary school in Switzerland. He returned to homelandin 1935, and enrolled in a capital military school, from which he graduated in 1938. In 1939 he married a sister of Faroq I, king of Egypt.
