Inşirah Hanımefendi

Inşirah Hanımefendi
Spouse Mehmed VI
Full name
Seniye Inşirah Hanımefendi
House House of Osman (by marriage)
Father Aziz Bey Voçibe
Born Seniye Voçibe
July 10, 1887
Batumi, Georgia
Died June 10, 1930 (aged 42)
Cairo, Egypt
Burial Eyüp Sultan cemetery
Religion Islam

Inşirah Hanımefendi (fully Devletlu İkinci Ikbal Inşirah Hanımefendi Hazretleri, Ottoman Turkish: انشراح خانم آفندی, July 1887 - 10 June 1930[1]) (Inşirah meaning "Opening, openness, spaciousness, delight, joy, delight, happiness, cheerfulness") was the second wife of the last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI.[2]

Biography

Inşirah Hanımefendi was born in 1887 to Aziz Bey Voçibe.[3] She was the niece of Dürr-i Aden Kadın Efendi, one of the wives of Mehmed V. At a very young age she was given to the palace where she received private education. She was a Lady-in-waiting to one of Sultan Abdülmecid I's wives, Şayeste Hanımefendi. While she was in service to Şayeste Hanımefendi, she was noticed by Şehzade Vahideddin. She was thin and elegant and had long chestnut colour hairs and blue eyes. She was also a good painter.

Şehzade Vahideddin asked her father, Aziz Bey, for her hand in marriage. But firstly her father and his brother, Zeki Bey refused. At last they accepted the marriage proposal and Şehzade Vahideddin married her on 8 July 1905 at Çengelköy Palace.[4][5] Inşirah was said to be a very jealous lady. One day Vahideddin was caught with a maid in the bedroom. She immediately abandoned her husband and got divorce from him on 17 November 1909. After the divorce she was still living in Vahideddin's mansion and after her deportation she went to Cairo.

She committed suicide by tossing herself into river Nile on 10 June 1930 and was buried in Eyüp Sultan cemetery.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Turkey: The Imperial House of Osman". web.archive.org. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Consorts Of Ottoman Sultans (in Turkish)". Ottoman Web Page. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
  3. ↑ Günay Günaydın (2006). Haremin son gülleri. Mevsimsiz Yayınları. ISBN 978-9-944-98703-5.
  4. ↑ Bir Çerkes prensesinin harem hatıraları. L & M. 2004. ISBN 978-9-756-49131-7.
  5. ↑ "Genealogy of the Ottoman Royal Family".
  6. ↑ Christopher Buyers. "The Royal Ark – Royal and Ruling Houses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas". 4dw.net.