Rumeysa Hayrıdil Aredba (born Princess Hatice Aredba; 1873 - 1927) was an Abkhazian princess. She was a lady-in-waiting to Nazikeda Kadın, wife of

Mehmed VI Mehmed VI Vahideddin ( ''Meḥmed-i sâdis'' or ''Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn''; or /; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as ''Şahbaba'' () among the Osmanoğlu family, was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman Cal ...

, the last Sultan of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

. She is known for writing memoirs, which give details of the exile, and personality of Sultan Mehmed at San Remo.

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Rumeysa Hanim was born as Hatice in 1873 in Abkhazia. She was a member of the Abkazian princely family, Aredba. Her father was Prince Halil Bey Aredba. She had an elder sister Amine Seten who was renamed Nazikeda, and married to

Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin Efendi (; ; 11 October 1857 – 1 February 1916) was an Ottoman prince, the eldest son of Sultan Abdülaziz and his first consort Dürrinev Kadın. Early life and education Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin was born on 29 Septe ...

, and a younger sister, Pakize Hanım, married to Esad Bey, a Hungarian. In 1876, she had been brought to Istanbul as a young child, where she was entrusted to the imperial harem. She was then sent to Cemile Sultan's palace in Kandilli, where her name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Rumeysa Hayrıdil Hanim. After her cousin Emine who had been renamed Nazikeda, married Şehzade Vahideddin (future Sultan

) in 1885, she became senior

lady-in-waiting A lady-in-waiting (alternatively written lady in waiting) or court lady is a female personal assistant at a Royal court, court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking nobility, noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was o ...

to her. She spent most of her life with the family of Sultan Mehmed. At the exile of the imperial family in 1924, she accompanied them to San Remo. During the exile she wrote memoirs which give details of the exile, and personality of Sultan Mehmed, by the name of ''Sultan Vahdeddinin San Remo Günleri''. After Mehmed's death in 1926, she returned to

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, where she died of cancer in 1927.

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