Behiye Sultan

Behiye Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: بهیه سلطان‎; 20 September 1881 – 5 March 1948) was the eldest daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin (1861–1915),[1] who was the son of Ottoman Sultan Murad V (reigned 1876). Her mother was Naziknaz Hanım.[2]

Behiye Sultan
Born(1881-09-20)20 September 1881
Çırağan Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
(present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died5 March 1948(1948-03-05) (aged 66)
Cairo, Egypt
Burial
Al-Shafi‘i, Cairo, Egypt
SpouseHafız Hakkı Pasha
HouseOttoman
FatherŞehzade Mehmed Selaheddin
MotherNaziknaz Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam

Life

Behiye Sultan was born on was born on 20 September 1881 in the Çırağan Palace, Istanbul. She was the daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin and Naziknaz Hanım. She had a younger brother Şehzade Ahmed Nihad two years younger then her. She was the paternal granddaughter of Murad V and Reftarıdil Kadın. [3]

On 17 February 1910, she married to Ottoman Army major general Hafız Hakkı Pasha (1878-1915) in the Ortaköy Palace. She remained childless. She did not remarry after her husband's death in 1915.[1]

Upon the exile of imperial family in 1924, she settled in Cairo. She lived in a tiny villa on Road 13. Her neighbors, the Wahid Raafat family, never saw anyone visit her. No one noticed when she moved out. All of a sudden she was replaced in the small house by astronomer Professor Khayri, director of the Helwan observatory." recalls Mrs. Raafat. Sharing the same boisterous gardener 'Am Ibrahim,' the Raafats would send the princess home-baked kahk during Eid-ul-Fitr. A few years later, by mere coincidence Dr. Wahid Raafat found himself wrongly implicated in an alleged royalist plot concocted by members of the sultana's extended family. He was subsequently imprisoned (without trial) for several weeks.[4]

Death

She died on 5 March 1948 in her home in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt [1][5] She was buried next to Said Halim Pasha's grave in the tomb of Al-Shafi‘i in Cairo.

Ancestry

References
  1. "Hafiz Hakki Pasha". Hyperleap. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  2. The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
  3. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 20.
  4. "MAADI'S OTTOMANS". egy.com. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  5. "Hanedan nerede öldü nereye gömüldü?". Türkiye Gazetesi (in Turkish). 18 December 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
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