Manolya Onur, Princess Qhabl Begum Sahiba Manolya-i-Nur (1955 – 25 October 2017) was a Turkish pageant queen and model who became a princess of Berar by marriage. She was a former

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Career

She competed in the

pageant in 1976 and represented

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in the 1976

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beauty pageant. Manolya had a career as a model from 1976 to 1978. She spent six years in

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studying English,

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as well as the History of Art at the

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Personal life

She was a granddaughter-in-law of Sultan Abdülmecid II, the last Ottoman Caliph. Manolya married with Mukarram Jah in August 1992 at Çırağan Palace, Hyderabad and became a princess styled as H.E.H. Manolya-i-Nur Begum Sahiba. She lived in

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and Australia during her marriage. Their daughter Nilufer (named after Princess Niloufer) was born in 1993. Nizam divorced Manolya in 1997 at

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, Switzerland. After her divorce, Manolya moved back to

and since then she had been living in

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and working for charitable institutions such as the Osteoporosis Patient Society. She died in 2017.

References

External links

Manolya's profile in osteoporosis foundation website
1955 births 2017 deaths Miss Universe 1976 contestants Turkish beauty pageant winners University of Paris alumni {{Turkey-bio-stub