Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh

Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh, born 22 July 1856 in Tehran, was the son of Nasser al-Din Shah and the brother of Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan and Mozzafar al-Din Mirza. His mother, Monir al-Saltaneh, was the daughter of the architect to the crown. Due to Nasser-ed-Din Shah's dislike of Mozaffar-ed-Din Mirza, he was the Shah's favored son for succession, but on account of the non-Qajar origin of his mother, like his other brother Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, Kamran Mirza was not eligible for succession to the throne.

He was educated by private tutors and at the Imperial Military College in Tehran. In 1862, when he was 6, Nasser al-Din Shah appointed him as the governor of Tehran with the stewardship of Pasha Khan Amin ol-Molk. He was styled Na'eb es-Saltaneh, Vice Regent, in 1867 before the Shah's trip to Khorasan and was given the title Amir Kabir, grand commander, the highest rank in the Qajar military, by his father in 1869. He was governor of Tehran 1862–1863 and 1875–1876, governor of Qazvin and Gilan 1878–1884, Mazandaran 1878–1884, and Minister for War from 1869 to 1873, 1884, 1896.

The star of Kamran Mirza's fortunes plummeted, but it was not entirely eclipsed, after the assassination of Nasser al-Din Shah in 1896. His daughter, Malekeh Jahan, married to Mohammad Ali Mirza who was later crowned as Mohammad Ali Shah. During the Constitutional Revolution he established the pro-court society. He was minister of war in 1908. In the reign of his grandson, Ahmad Shah, he was Governor-General of Khorasan from 1916 to 1917.

Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh died in Tehran on April 15, 1929, and was buried in Qom. The Kamranieh district in the North Tehran belonged to him. He received the Order of the Royal Portrait, Temsaal-e Homayouni, from his father.

• Order of the Royal Portrait (Temsal-e-Homayouni) of Persia
• 1st Class of the Order of Neshan-e Aqdas of Persia
• 1st Class of the Order of the Lion and the Sun of Persia
• Knight of the Order of St. Andrew of Russia
• Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky of Russia
• Knight of the Order of St. Stanislas of Russia
• Knight of the Order of the White Eagle of Russia
• 1st class of the Order of St. Anne of Russia
• Grand cross of the Order of Leopold of Austria -1880

Nayeb es-Saltaneh was married to eleven wives. His first wife, Sorour ed-Dowleh was daughter of Morad Mirza Hessam es-Saltaneh Conqueror of Herat son of Abbas Mirza. They had four children, Princess Malakeh Jahan, wife of Mohammad Ali Shah and mother of Soltan Ahmad Shah; Ma’ssoumeh Khanom died in her youth, Qamar-ol-Moluk died when she was 14 and Fath Ali Mirza died aged five. Kamran Mirza also had 22 children from his other wives, 10 daughters and 12 sons.

sons

• Prince Fat'h Ali Mirza
• Prince Mohammad Mehdi Mirza Zell-os-Saltaneh
• Prince Abbas Mirza E'ezaz-es-Saltaneh
• Prince Abdollah Mirza E'etezad Khaqan
• Prince Hassan Ali Mirza Farrokh-od-Dowleh
• Prince Soltan Salim Mirza Salar-e Aghdas
• Prince Ebrahim Mirza Salar-e A'azam
• Prince Mohmmad Reza Mirza Firouz-od-Dowleh
• Prince Mohammad Baqer Mirza Amir Arf'a
• Prince Hossein Ali Mirza Eghtedar-os-Saltaneh
• Prince Mohammad Taqi Mirza Nosrat-ol-Soltan
• Prince Mahmud Mirza Amir Akram

daughters

• Princess Malakeh Jahan, mother of Soltan Ahmad Shah
• Princess Safieh Monir A'azam
• Princess Mahtaban Mo'azaz A'azam
• Princess Ensieh Houra
• Princess Farrokh A'azam
• Princess Banoo Olia
• Princess Nayyer A'azam
• Princess Fakhr-e Olia
• Princess Negar-ol-Molouk
• Princess Banoo Aghdas

• Moayer-ol-Mamalek, Dustali (1982). Rejale Asre Nassery.