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Sep 21, 2002 · Davis had fallen in love with the family au pair, a young Iranian woman named Ashraf Naini. Shamsi, as she is known, remained unconvinced of the seriousness of his intentions: "I didn't want to...
Apr 15, 2013 · Mr. Davis’s marriage to Ms. Cantelo ended in divorce. They had two children. He subsequently married his family’s Iranian au pair, Ashraf Naini, known as Shamsi, in 1964. She died in 2010.
Apr 14, 2013 · His first marriage, to the soprano April Cantelo, which had produced two children, collapsed when he fell in love with the family's Iranian au pair, Ashraf Naini, known as Shamsi. The couple...
They had two children. Their marriage ended in 1964, and in that same year, Davis married Ashraf Naini, known as Shamsi. To satisfy both the Iranian and British authorities, the couple were married three times, once in Iran and twice in the UK, in the Iranian Embassy in London as well as in a UK civil ceremony; they had five children.
Apr 20, 2013 · In a soul-baring interview for BBC radio's In the Psychiatrist's Chair , he said he had never been unfaithful to his Persian-born second wife (Ashraf Naini, whom he married in 1964 and by...
Shamsi Davis (Lady Colin Davis) was born Ashraf Naini, in Iran. She came to England in the early 1960s and in 1962 became an au pair in the household of the conductor Colin Davis (later Sir Colin, 1927–2013). They married in 1964, and had five children, several of whom became musicians.
Apr 16, 2013 · As well as many music musical awards, Davis was knighted in 1980 and made a Companion of Honour in 2001. His first marriage was dissolved in 1964, and the following year he married Ashraf Naini.
