Peyveste Emukhvari

Princess Rabia Peyveste Emukhvari (10 May 1873, Pitsunda, Georgia – 1944, Paris) was born as a daughter of Prince Osman-Bey Emukhvari and Princess Hesna Chaabalurchava.

Biography

Peyveste Emukhvari had green eyes and long brunette hair for much of her life. In 1877, during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), her family emigrated from the Caucusus to Istanbul, where she was delivered at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. First, she was given to serve the head of the court. However, soon the Sultan Abdul Hamid II took notice of Peyveste, and they married on 24 January 1893 in the Yıldız Palace, the Sultan's residence at the time.

One year later, upon the birth of their son, Abdul Hamid II ordered the building of a small palace for his young wife. However, Peyveste had not succeeded in binding the sultan to her, and already in 1896, Abdul Hamid II had moved to another young princess. Soon, he made his new favorite Fatma Pesend Hanım his 11th wife. Peyveste, disappointed in her husband, retreated from the court life and dedicated herself to the upbringing of her son. During the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that overthrew her husband's autocratic rule and restored constitutional monarchy, Peyveste, who already was raised to a rank of a great duchess, followed her husband in exile. One year later, she returned to Istanbul with her son. In 1924, she went into a second exile and lived with her son first in Naples and Rome, and later in Paris, where she died in 1944. The great duchess Peyveste was buried in the Muslim Bobigny cemetery in Paris.

Children

She bore Abdul Hamid a son:

• Prince Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri Efendi (Constantinople, Yıldız Palace, 14 August 1894 – Paris, 1 June 1952), married at Nişantaşı Palace, Pera (today Beyoğlu), on 4 June 1919 and divorced in 1923 his cousin HGlory Nabila Emine Halim Hanım Efendi (Constantinople, 1 June 1899 – Istanbul, 6 December 1979), and had issue:
  • Princess Mihrishah Selcuk Sultan (Istanbul, 14 April 1920 – Monte Carlo, Monaco, 11 May 1980 and buried in Cairo), married firstly on 7 October 1940 to HE Damat Ahmed el-Djezuly Ratib Beyefendi (Alexandria – 1972), and had issue, and married secondly in Cairo on 7 April 1966 to Ismail Assem, without issue:
    • Princess Hatice Türkân Ratib Hanımsultan (b. Cairo, 1941), married to Hüseyin Fehmi (1941–2000), and had two daughters:
      • Melek Fehmi (b. 1966), 3 sons, Ahmed Ragab (b. 1987), Abdelrahman Ragab (b. 1991), Aly Ragab (b. 1996).
      • Nesrin Fehmi (b. 1968), Married to Mohamed El Naggar (b. 1963). 2 sons, Amr El Naggar (b. 1989), Sherif El Naggar (b. 1992).
    • Princess Mihrimah Ratib Hanımsultan (Cairo, 1943 – Cairo, 1946 and buried there)
    • Prince Sultanzade Beyzade Touran Ibrahim Ratib Beyefendi (b. Giza, 3 May 1950), married in Bogotá on 27 July 1974 to French Noblewoman Anne de Montozon de Leguilhac (b. Toulouse, 13 January 1947), and had issue:
      • Fatıma Nimet Selçuk Mahiveş Ratib Hanım (b. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 11 July 1976)
      • Karim El-Djezouly Ratib Bey (b. Bogotá, 13 December 1978)

Literature

• Leyla Achba-Anchabadze, Prinzessin: Harem Hatiralari, Istanbul 2004
• Öztuna, Yilmaz: Devletler ve Hanedanlar, Ankara 1989
• Ulucay, Cagatay: Padisahlarin Kadınları ve Kızları, Ankara 1992
• Osmanoglu, Aise, Prinzessin: Babam Sultan Abdülhamid, Istanbul 1994

See also

• Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman family tree
• Ottoman dynasty
• Line of succession to the Ottoman throne

References