Adile Hanımsultan

Adile Hanımsultan was born on 12 November 1900 in the Ortaköy Palace.[1]^[2] Her father was Mehmed Kemaleddin Pasha, son of Gazi Osman Pasha and Zatıgül Hanım.^[3][4] Her mother was Naime Sultan, daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Bidar Kadın.^[5][3] She had an older brother, Sultanzade Mehmed Cahid Osman Bey.^[6] She was educated at the Ortaköy Palace.^[2]

In 1904, when she was four years old, her parents divorced, due to her father's affair with Hatice Sultan, daughter of Murad V.^[7] Her father was stripped of all military honours and ranks and was exiled to Bursa. He came back to Istanbul in 1909 and died in 1920.^[8] Her mother afterwards married İşkodralı Celaleddin Pasha in 1907.^[1][9][10]

Marriages and descendants

Adile's first husband was

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Adile and her husband firstly settled in France and then in Egypt.[11] Their daughter Nermin was taken by her grandmother, Naime, who claimed that Adile and Mahmud were too young to look after her. Nermin then grew up with her in Albania.^[14] They divorced on 28 March 1928 in Cairo.^[11]

In 1930, Adile married Orhan El-Bekri, a wealthy man of Turkish origin.^[13] The couple had three children, two daughters and a son, Ayten El-Bekri, Kubilay El-Bekri and Şermin El-Bekri.^[1][13] Her son Kubilay married Gönül Hanım, a woman of Turkish origin. Her daughter Ayten married renowned Egyptian Professor Zekeriya Nasr. Şermin and Ayten both settled in Paris.^[13]

Death

In 1952, after the law for princesses was passed, which availed them to return back to Turkey, however Adile did not return and chose to remain in Cairo. She died in February 1979 at the age of seventy-eight in Cairo.^[1][13][15]

Ancestry

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