Emine Mukbile Sultan (, "''benign, trustworthy''" and "''the believer one''"; 17 September 1911 – 21 May 1995) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of

Şehzade Ömer Hilmi Şehzade Ömer Hilmi Efendi (; 2 March 1886 – 6 April 1935) was an Ottoman prince, the third son of Sultan Mehmed V, and his consort Mihrengiz Kadın. His great-granddaughter, Ayşe Gülnev Osmanoğlu, is currently an author of historical n ...

, son of

Mehmed V Mehmed V Reşâd (; or ; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) was the penultimate List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a Constitutional monarchy, constitutional monarch. He had ...

Early life

Emine Mukbile Sultan was born on 17 September 1911 in the

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. Her father was

, and her mother was Hatice Fidervs Gülnev Hanım. She was first child and only daughter of her parents. She had a brother,

Şehzade Mahmud Namık Şehzade Mahmud Namık Efendi (; 23 December 1913 – 13 November 1963) was an Ottoman prince, the only son of Şehzade Ömer Hilmi, and his third consort Hatice Fidervs Gülnev Hanım. He was the grandson of Sultan Mehmed V Reşad and Mihrengiz ...

, two years younger than her. She was the granddaughter of Sultan

and

Mihrengiz Kadın Fatma Mihrengiz Kadın (, "''sun's/light's daughter''"; 15 October 1869 – 12 December 1938) was the third consort of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Mihrengiz Kadın was born on 15 October 1869. Official records state that s ...

. On 29 October 1923, Turkey was officially declared as a republic, and in 1924, the imperial family was exiled, after which her family settled firstly in

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, and then in

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Marriage

Mukbile was engaged to her second cousin Şehzade Ali Vâsib, the son of

Şehzade Ahmed Nihad Şehzade Ahmed Nihad Efendi (, also Ahmed Nihad Osmanoğlu; 5 July 1883 – 4 June 1954) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin, and the grandson of Sultan Murad V. He was the 38th Head of the Imperial House of Osman from 1 ...

, and grandson of

Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin Efendi (; 5 August 1861 – 29 April 1915) was an Ottoman prince, the only surviving son of Sultan Murad V, and his second consort Reftarıdil Kadın. Early life Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin was born on 5 August 186 ...

in 1928. The two married on 30 November 1931, in Ruhl Hotel in Nice, France. The couple later moved to

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. Here she, and her husband had to make do with an unassuming apartment on Mosseri Avenue, right next to Maadi's Synagogue. In fact, their landlord was the house principal benefactor Meyr Biton, a close attendant to Haim Nahum Efendi, the Turkish-born Grand Rabbi of Egypt. They then moved to

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in 1935. where on 7 July 1940, she gave birth to the couple's only son, ''Şehzade'' Osman Selaheddin Vasib. Here he went to school. After revocation of the law in 1952, the princesses were allowed to return to Turkey. However, Mukbile chose to stay in Alexandria with her husband and her son. She returned to Istanbul with her husband, and son in 1974, where they settled in Beşiktaş. The same year she visited Dolmabahçe Palace with her son. In 1977, Ali Vâsib became the Head of House of Osman after the death of

Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz Efendi (; also Mehmed Abdülaziz Osmanoğlu; 26 September 1901 – 19 January 1977) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin, and grandson of Sultan Abdulaziz. He was the 40th head of the Ottoman dynast ...

, and died in 1983.

Death

Mukbile Sultan died on 21 May 1995 in Beşiktaş, Istanbul at the age of eighty-three, and was buried in the mausoleum of her grandfather in Eyüp,

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Issue

By her marriage, Mukbile Sultan had an only son: *''Şehzade'' Osman Selaheddin Vasib Osmanoğlu (b. 7 July 1940, Cairo). On 27 August 1966 he married Athena Joy Christophorides (divorced on 6 May 1991) have three sons and one daughter: **Ayşe Gülnev ''Sultan'' Osmanoğlu (b. 17 January 1971, England). She is an authress of historical novels about Ottoman dynasty, like ''The Gilted Cage on the Bosphorus''. She married Nicholas Sutton on 27 August 1994 and has three children: ***''Sultanzade'' Max Ali Sutton (b. 5 January 2000, London) ***''Sultanzade'' Cosmo Tarik Sutton (b. 10 September 2001, London) ***''Sultanzade'' Lysander Gengiz Sutton (b. 12 April 2003, London) **''Şehzade'' Orhan Murad Osmanoğlu (b. 26 December 1972, England). He married Patricia Emine Iotti on 18 February 2001. They have two sons: ***''Şehzade'' Turan Cem Osmanoğlu (b. 7 January 2004, England) ***''Şehzade'' Tamer Nihad Osmanoğlu (b. 2006) **''Şehzade'' Nihad Reşad Osmanoğlu (b. 17 September 1978 - 19 December 1978, England). **''Şehzade'' Selim Süleyman Osmanoğlu (b. 15 December 1979). On 22 June 2003 in Istanbul he married Alev Öcal. They had a son: ***''Şehzade'' Batu Bayezid Osmanoğlu (b. 2008)

Ancestry

References

Sources

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