Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin)

Mihrimah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: مھرماہ سلطان‎ ;11 November 1922 – 30 March 2000) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin, son of Mehmed V.

Mihrimah Sultan
Born(1922-11-11)11 November 1922
Haydarpasha Villa, Istanbul, Turkey
Died30 March 2000(2000-03-30) (aged 77)
Amman, Jordan
Burial
Mehmed V Mausoleum, Eyüp, Istanbul
Spouse
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(m. 1940; died 1983)​
Issue
DynastyOttoman (by birth)
Hashemites (by marriage)
FatherŞehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin
MotherNeşemend Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Mihrimah Sultan was born on 11 November 1922, in her fathers villa located at Haydarpasha,[1] ten days after the abolition of Ottoman Empire. Her father was Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin and her mother was Neşemend Hanım. She was the eight child and youngest daughter of her father and the only child of her mother. She was the first princess to be born after the abolition of the empire. She was the granddaughter of Sultan Mehmed V and Kamures Kadın.[2]

She had green eyes.[3] She lived on the second floor with her mother at her father's villa, which was occupied by her mother after her father divorced his wife Melekseryan Hanım.[4] On 29 October 1923, Turkey was officially declared republic and on 3 March 1924, the Caliphate was abolished and the imperial family was sent to exile.[5] The princess settled at Alexandria, Egypt with her family.[2] She lost her mother when was only twelve in 1934,[6] and her father in 1938, when she was fifteen.[2][7]

Marriage

In 1940, during the ongoing World War II, Mihrimah married Prince Nayef bin Abdullah of Jordan, the son of Sultan Abdullah I of Jordan.[1] The marriage contract was signed on 30 September 1940 and the wedding was held on 7 October 1940 in the villa of Mihrimah's elder half-sister Lütfiye Sultan, which was a wartime scene during the wedding.[8]

The couple moved to Amman, Jordan after the wedding. Her title in Jordan was "Princess Mihrimah Naif" (Arabic: أميرة مهرماه نايف‎).[3] On 10 August 1941, she gave birth to the couple's first child Prince Ali bin Nayef, he was followed by another son Prince Abu Bakr bin Nayef born on 27 April 1948.[2][9]

After King Abdullah I of Jordan was killed in Jerusalem, his eldest son Talal of Jordan became the king, and her husband Nayef became heir to the throne. However, King Talal lost his mental balance, was deposed and sent to Istanbul, where he spent his life in Healing Dormitory in Ortaköy. Prince Nayef was the one who would succeed the throne, however, he rejected and said "I am not interested in politics". After which Talal's elder son Hussein I of Jordan succeeded to the throne. Mihrimah and Prince Nayef resided in Amman, as the senior members of the dynasty.[3]

Later life and death

After her husband's death in 1983, she went on to live in the United States and the United Kingdom for some time and returned to Jordan.[3] She died in Amman on 30 March 2000 at the age of seventy-seven. Her cause of death was blood cancer.[3][1] Her funeral was attended by the family members living in Turkey. She was buried on 2 April 2000 in the mausoleum of her grandfather in Eyüp, Istanbul.[3][1][2]

Ancestry

References
  1. Brookes 2010, p. 284.
  2. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 32.
  3. "Prenses Mihrimah'ın son yolculuğu". Hürriyet. 2 April 2000. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  4. Brookes 2010, p. 264-5.
  5. Brookes 2010, p. 264 r. 61.
  6. Brookes 2010, p. 286.
  7. Brookes 2010, p. 291.
  8. "MAADI'S OTTOMANS". egy.com. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  9. "The Royal Jordanian Family Tree". Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2020.

Sources
  • Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
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