Sabiha Sultan
Sabiha Sultan | |
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Born | 19 March 1894 Ortaköy Palace, Ortaköy, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
Died | 26 August 1971 Çengelköy, Istanbul, Turkey | (aged 77)
Burial | Aşiyan Asri Cemetery, Istanbul |
Spouse | |
Ottoman Turkish: رقیه صبیحه سلطان |
Rukiye Sabiha Sultan (
Early life
Sabiha Sultan was born on 19 March 1894 in her father's palace in Ortaköy.[1] Her father was Mehmed VI, son of Abdulmejid I and Gülistu Kadın. Her mother was Nazikeda Kadın, daughter of Hasan Marshan and Fatma Horecan Aredba and first wife of her father.[2] She was the third and last daughter born to her father and mother. She had two sisters, Münire Fenire Sultan, six years elder than her, born and died in 1888, and Fatma Ulviye Sultan, two year elder than her. Her birth was difficult, so that later her mother could not have any more children. She had a younger half-brother, Şehzade Mehmed Ertuğrul, born in 1912 by the Second Consort Müveddet Kadın.[3][4][5]
Refik Bey, the son of Mihrifelek Hanım, the second kalfa of Sultan Abdulmejid I was appointed teacher to Sabiha, and her elder sister Ulviye Sultan.[6] The two had learned to play piano from Mlle Voçino.[7]
Marriage
Suitors
When her father ascended the throne in 1918, Sabiha was still unmarried, but had several admirers. Those who knew her always said that she was not like the other women of the Ottoman family. "Sabiha Sultan was different", said the Turkish poet Yahya Kemal.[8]
Her first suitor is thought to be Rauf Orbay,[8] a relative of one of Sultan Abdul Hamid II's consorts, Sazkar Hanım.[9] He was followed by Mahmud Kemal Pasha. Another was Fuad Bey of the Babanzade clan. Captain Safvet Arıkan, Lieutenant Suphi Bey from Damascus were other suitors, but none of them were accepted.[8] Another suitor was Mehmed Ali Pasha, the nephew of Ahmed Muhtar Pasha.[10]
Her betrothal to Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last ruling member of the Qajar dynasty and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was forfeited in favor of her second cousin Şehzade Ömer Faruk thus missing her chance of becoming the first "First Lady" of the nascent Turkish Republic.[11]
Wedding
Sabiha and Şehzade Ömer Faruk who was four years her junior, the son of Abdulmejid II, the last Caliph of the Ottoman Caliphate and Şehsuvar Kadın, were in love with each other. Initially the marriage was rejected because between the descendants of Abdülmecid I (as Mehmed VI) and those of Abdülaziz (as Şehzade Ömer Faruk) there was no friendship due to Abdülaziz's violent death.[12] Şehsuvar Hanım, the prince's mother called on Nazikeda, and succeeded in convincing her.[13]
The marriage took place on 29 April 1920,[14] in the pavilion of the sacred relics, Topkapı Palace. The marriage was performed by Şeyhülislam Hayrizade Ibrahim Efendi. Sabiha Sultan's deputy was Başkatip Ali Fuad Bey, and Ömer Faruk's deputy was Ömer Yaver Pasha.[15] The wedding reception took place at the Yıldız Palace.[16][17][18][19]
In May 1920, ten days after their wedding, Sabiha and Faruk moved to the mansion of Rumelihisarı. In October of the same year, her father bought two houses for his daughters[20] in Nişantaşı.[21] The mansions were known as the Twin Palaces. He gave one house to Ulviye Sultan, and the other to Sabiha. Sabiha and Faruk decided to live in Nişantaşı during the winter and Rumelihisarı in the summer.[20]
Issue and exile
The couple's eldest daughter, Fatma Neslişah Sultan was born on 2 February 1921 in the Nişantaşı Palace.[22] She was followed two years later by Zehra Hanzade Sultan, born on 12 September 1923 in the Dolmabahçe Palace.[23]
At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Sabiha and her two daughters left Turkey. On 11 March, she left her mansion in Rumelihisarı and took the Orient Express to join her husband and father-in-law in Switzerland.[24] Later they moved to Nice, where her youngest daughter Hibetullah Necla Sultan was born on 16 May 1926, the same day of Mehmed VI's death.[5][25][18]
In 1930, Şehzade Ibrahim Tevfik, now penniless, and his family, came to live in Nice in a small cottage in a village nearby with his family.[26] He then moved with his youngest daughter Fevziye Sultan in with his cousin Sabiha and Ömer Faruk, where he died in 1931. Fevziye came back to live with her mother.[27]
Her mother also used to come for a stay at Nice with her. A large room used to be assigned to her, which she shared with Şehzade Mehmed Ertuğrul, her stepson, whenever he came back from Grasse.[27] In 1938, she moved to Alexandria with her mother and sister after her mother's grave illness there.[28]
On 26 September 1940, she attended the wedding of her daughter,
Divorce
Sabiha's husband, Ömer Faruk developed an increased interest in his cousin Mihrişah Sultan, the daughter of crown prince Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin. It was also a public knowledge that things were not going well between Faruk and Sabiha.[31]
In 1944, Mihrişah even sided with Faruk when the council chose Prince
And so on 5 March 1948, after twenty eight years of marriage, Ömer Faruk divorced Sabiha, and married Mihrişah Sultan.[29] However, their marriage didn't last, and a few years later, Mihrişah divorced. Later Faruk would tell his friends, "I divorced the most beautiful woman in the world to marry the ugliest one. Fate!".[34]
Later years
Following her divorce, Sabiha Sultan left her home in
Later, Sabiha went to Paris for a while, to live with Princess Hanzade.
Death
Sabiha Sultan died on 26 August 1971 at the age of seventy seven in her mansion in Çengelköy, Istanbul and was buried in Aşiyan Asri Cemetery.[25][18]
Honours
Styles of Sabiha Sultan | ||
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Reference style Her Imperial Highness | | |
Spoken style | Your Imperial Highness |
- Order of the House of Osman[38]
- Order of Medjidie, Jeweled[38]
- Order of Charity, 1st Class[38]
Issue
Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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Fatma Neslişah Sultan | 2 February 1921[39] | 2 April 2012[39] | Married once, and had issue, a son, and a daughter; died in Istanbul, Turkey[39] |
Zehra Hanzade Sultan | 12 September 1923[40] | 19 March 1998[40] | Married once, and had issue, a son and a daughter; died in Paris, France[40] |
Hibetullah Necla Sultan | 16 May 1926[39] | 6 October 2006[39] | Born in Nice, France; married once, and had issue, a son; died in Madrid, Spain[39][41][42] |
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- ^ a b c Bardakçı 2017, p. 11.
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- ^ "MAADI'S OTTOMANS". egy.com. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ Bardakçı 2017, p. 27.
- ^ Bardakçı 2017, p. 28.
- ^ Bardakçı 2017, p. 29.
- ^ Açba 2004, p. 101.
- ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, pp. 710–711.
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- ^ Bardakçı 2017, p. 70.
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- ^ Bardakçı 2017, p. 141.
- ^ a b Bardakçı 2017, p. 142.
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- ^ a b c d e f Bardakçı 2017, p. xvi.
- ^ a b c Bardakçı 2017, p. xiv.
- ^ BARDAKÇI, Murat (2006-10-07). "Neclá Sultan Madrid'de öldü". www.hurriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-10-30.
- ^ "Madrid: Necla Hibetullah Sultan'ın Vefatının Ardından". Haberler (in Turkish). 2006-10-10. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
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