Fatima Neslişah
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Princess Fatima Neslişah (or Nazlishah in arabic) Osmanoğlu, born 1921, is a granddaughter of the last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI (Vahidettin, her mother's father) and last Ottoman Caliph Abdulmecid II (her father's father Prince Shehzade Ömer Faruk Effendi) [1]
She grew up in Nice, France after being exiled since she was 3 years old, when the Ottoman family left Istanbul.
She was married to the Egyptian Prince Muhammad Abdul Moneim at the Heliopolis Palace, Cairo September 26, 1940, who became the Egyptian Regent after the crowning of the young Fuad II.
They had two children.
She lives now in Istanbul, Turkey.
[edit] References
- ^ Abdulmecid II was chosen as caliph in 1922, he was no longer Sultan, as the National Assembly had abolished the sultanate to turn Turkey into a republic. The caliphate was abolished in turn in 1924
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
(French) interview with Neslişah Sultan on YouTube, about her family's exile
(English) (Turkish) short biography
