Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar
Sultan Sir Jamshid bin Abdullah Al Said, GCMG (Arabic: جمشيد بن عبد الله; born 16 September 1929), is a Zanzibari royal who was the last reigning Sultan of Zanzibar before being deposed in the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Honours
- 2.1 National
- 2.2 Foreign
- 3 Ancestry
- 4 References
Biography
Jamshid ruled Zanzibar from 1 July 1963 to 12 January 1964. On 10 December 1963, Zanzibar received its independence from the United Kingdom as a cons*utional monarchy within the Commonwealth under Jamshid. This state of affairs was short lived and he was overthrown by the Zanzibar Revolution.
He fled into exile firstly to Oman but was not allowed to settle permanently. He later moved to the United Kingdom, settling in Portsmouth with his wife and children.
While his children and siblings all settled in Oman in the 1980s, the Omani government continually denied Jamshid's requests to join them, citing security reasons. Their stance changed in September 2020 when after over 50 years in the United Kingdom, Jamshid's request to live in Oman was granted by the government of the new Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tarik, to return to his ancestral land as a member of the Al-Said royal family only, rather than a *ular Sultan.
Honours
National
- Sovereign of the Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar (Wisam al-Kawkab al-Durri al-Zanzibari) since 1 July 1963 (1st cl* on 30 March 1960).
- Founder and Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of Independence of Zanzibar (Wissam al-Istiqlal) in five cl*es on 9 November 1963.
Foreign
- Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) on 29 December 1963.
- Knight Grand Collar of the Royal Order of the Drum (Rwanda).