Fatma Sultan (daughter of Abdülmecid I)
Fatma Sultan (1 November 1840 - 29 August 1884) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdülmecid I and his wife Gülcemal Kadınefendi.
Biography
Fatma Sultan was the second child and eldest daughter born to her father, and the eldest daughter born to her mother, hence the full sister of her younger siblings Princess Refia Sultan and Sultan Mehmed V. At the age of thirteen, on 2 August 1854, she married Ali Galib Pasha. The next year she gave birth to a daughter, Cemile Hanımsultan, who died in infancy. After the death of Ali Galib Pasha by drowning in the Bosphorus in 1858 she married, six months later, Nuri Pasha on 17 March 1859. Two children, Sultanzade Mehmed Fuad and Emine Lutfiye Hanımsultan, came of this married. Both of her children died young. Following the dubious conviction and exile to Arabia of her second husband for complicity in the death of Sultan Abdülaziz, Princess Fatma withdrew to her shore side villa until her death a short while later on 29 August 1884. She is buried in the mausoleum of Sultan Murad V at the New Mosque, Istanbul.
References
- "Turkey: The Imperial House of Osman". web.archive.org. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
- Fanny Davis (1986). The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-24811-5.
