Şükriye Sultan

Şükriye Sultan (Hatice Şükriye; Ottoman Turkish: خدیجه شکریه سلطان‎; 24 February 1906 – 1 April 1972) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of heir to the throne Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, son of Sultan Abdulaziz, and Leman Hanım.

Şükriye Sultan
Born(1906-02-24)24 February 1906
Çamlıca Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died1 April 1972(1972-04-01) (aged 66)
Çamlıca Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
Burial
Sultan Mahmud II Mausoleum, Divanyolu, Istanbul
Spouse
  • Şehzade Mehmed Şerefeddin
    ​
    (
    m. 1923; div. 1927)
  • ​
    (
    m. 1935; div. 1949)
  • Mehmed Şefik Ziya
    ​
    (
    m. 1949; died 1970)
Full name
Turkish: Hatice Şükriye Sultan
Ottoman Turkish: خدیجه شکریه سلطان‎
DynastyOttoman
FatherŞehzade Yusuf Izzeddin
MotherLeman Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Şükriye Sultan was born on 24 February 1906 in Çamlıca Palace. Her father was Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin and her mother was Leman Hanım. She was the second child, and eldest daughter born to her father and the eldest child of her mother. She had two younger siblings, a brother, Şehzade Mehmed Nizameddin, two years younger than her, and a sister, Mihrişah Sultan, ten years younger than her. She was the granddaughter of Abdulaziz and Dürrünev Kadın.[1]

First marriage

Şükriye Sultan married her cousin Şehzade Mehmed Şerefeddin, son of Şehzade Selim Süleyman, grandson of Sultan Abdulmejid I on 14 November 1923 in the Nişantaşı Palace. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Şükriye, her husband and her mother-in-law Ayşe moved to Beirut, where the two divorced in 1927. After which he married Mübbecel Bezmiâlem Hanım.[1][2]

Second marriage

Following her divorce, she moved to Cairo, where she married Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah,[3][4] tenth ruler of Kuwait, on 4 September 1935.

Third marriage

After the two divorced in 1949, she married Mehmed Şefik Ziya, an American citizen of Turkish Cypriot ethnicity.[5][6]

In 1952, Şükriye Sultan, her husband, and her sister returned to Istanbul after the revocation of the law of exile for princesses. Here she settled in Çamlıca Palace.[7][8] Mehmed Şefik married Neslişah Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir in 1970. She was widowed by his death the same year. [1]

Death

Şükriye Sultan died on 1 April 1972 at the age of sixty-six and was buried in the mausoleum of her great grandfather Sultan Mahmud II, Divanyolu, Istanbul.[1]

Honours

Ancestry

References
  1. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 15, 27.
  2. Milanlıoğlu, Neval (2011). Emine Naciye Sultan’ın Hayatı (1896-1957). pp. 13 r. 55.
  3. Dündar, A. Merthan (2006). Pan-İslâmizm'den Büyük Asyacılığa: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, Japonya ve Orta Asya. Ötüken Neșriyat. p. 227. ISBN 978-9-754-37579-4.
  4. Bardakçı, Murat (1991). Son Osmanlılar: Osmanlı hanedanının sürgün ve miras öyküsü. Gri Yayın. p. 37.
  5. Talu, Ercüment Ekrem; Şakir, Ziya (2005). Şehzade Yusuf İzzedin öldürüldü mü, intihar mı etti?. Selis. p. 16. ISBN 978-9-758-72447-5.
  6. Yıldırım, Tahsin (2006). Veliahd Yusuf İzzettin Efendi Öldürüldü mü? İntihar mı etti?. Çatı Yayıncılık. p. 64.
  7. Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı (1994). İstanbul ansiklopedisi. Kültür Bakanlığı. p. 536. ISBN 978-9-757-30607-8.
  8. Kurşun, Zekeriya (2005). Üsküdar Sempozyumu: Bildiriler. Üsküdar Belediyesi. p. 344. ISBN 978-9-759-20195-1.
  9. Virgül, Issues 80-83. Pusula Yayıncılık. 2005. p. 41.
  10. Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG. Künker Auktion 299 - Orden und Ehrenzeichen aus aller Welt: Das Osmanische Reich, The Ottoman Collection, Teil 2. Numismatischer Verlag Künker. pp. 146–7.
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