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Adile Hanımsultan
Born12 November 1900
Ortaköy Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
DiedFebruary 1979(1979-02-00) (aged 78)
Cairo, Egypt
Spouse
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(m. 1922; div. 1928)​
Orhan El-Bekri
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(m. 1930)​
Issue
  • First marriage
  • Nermin Sultan
  • Second marriage
  • Ayten El-Bekri
  • Kubilay El-Bekri
  • Şermin El-Bekri
Names
Turkish: Adile Hanımsultan
Ottoman Turkish: عدیله خانم سلطان
HouseOttoman
FatherMehmed Kemaleddin Pasha
MotherNaime Sultan
ReligionSunni Islam

Adile Hanımsultan (Ottoman Turkish: عدیله خانم سلطان; "Justice, fairness"; 12 November 1900 – February 1979) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Naime Sultan and Kemaleddin Pasha and granddaughter of Sultan Abdülhamid II.

Early life

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Adile Hanımsultan was born on 12 November 1900 in the Ortaköy Palace.[1][2] Her father was Mehmed Kemaleddin Pasha, son of Gazi Osman Pasha and Zatıgül Hanım.[3][4] Her mother was Naime Sultan, daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Bidar Kadın.[5][3] She had an older brother, Sultanzade Mehmed Cahid Osman Bey.[6] She was educated at the Ortaköy Palace.[2]

In 1904, when she was four years old, her parents divorced, due to her father's affair with Hatice Sultan, daughter of Murad V.[7] Her father was stripped of all military honours and ranks and was exiled to Bursa. He came back to Istanbul in 1909 and died in 1920.[8] Her mother afterwards married İşkodralı Celaleddin Pasha in 1907.[1][9][10]

Marriages and descendants

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Adile's first husband was Şehzade Mahmud Şevket, son of Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin and Nervaliter Hanım, and three years her junior.[11][12] The marriage took place on 4 May 1922 in the Üsküdar Palace, when Adile was twenty two and Mahmud was nineteen years old.[1][11] The couple was given Kuruçeşme Palace as their residence.[11] On 27 January 1923, she gave birth to the couple's only child, a daughter, Hamide Nermin Nezahet Sultan.[1][11] Nermin has developed bone tuberculosis, which remained throughout her life. [13]

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Adile and her husband firstly settled in France and then in Egypt.[11] Their daughter Nermin was taken by her grandmother, Naime, who claimed that Adile and Mahmud were too young to look after her. Nermin then grew up with her in Albania.[14] They divorced on 28 March 1928 in Cairo.[11]

In 1930, Adile married Orhan El-Bekri, a wealthy man of Turkish origin.[13] The couple had three children, two daughters and a son, Ayten El-Bekri, Kubilay El-Bekri and Şermin El-Bekri.[1][13] Her son Kubilay married Gönül Hanım, a woman of Turkish origin. Her daughter Ayten married renowned Egyptian Professor Zekeriya Nasr. Şermin and Ayten both settled in Paris.[13]

Death

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In 1952 the law for princesses was passed, which allowed them to return to Turkey; however Adile did not return and chose to remain in Cairo. She died in February 1979 at the age of seventy-eight in Cairo.[1][13][15]

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 25–26.
  2. ^ a b Bağce 2008, p. 57.
  3. ^ a b Uluçay 2011, p. 254.
  4. ^ Uru, Cevriye (2010). Sultan II. Abdülhamid'in kızı Zekiye Sultan'in Hayatı (1872-1950) (in Turkish). Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences. p. 15.
  5. ^ Bağce 2008, p. 21.
  6. ^ Bağce 2008, p. 55.
  7. ^ Bağce 2008, p. 63.
  8. ^ Bağce 2008, p. 53.
  9. ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 691.
  10. ^ Uluçay 2011, p. 255.
  11. ^ a b c d e f Bağce 2008, p. 58.
  12. ^ Vâsıb, Ali; Osmanoğlu, Osman Selaheddin (2004). Bir şehzadenin hâtırâtı: vatan ve menfâda gördüklerim ve işittiklerim. YKY. p. 168. ISBN 978-9-750-80878-4.
  13. ^ a b c d e Bağce 2008, p. 59.
  14. ^ Bağce 2008, p. 97.
  15. ^ PAZAN, İbrahim. "HANEDAN ALBÜMÜ". ibrahimpazan.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 17 April 2022.

Sources

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  • Bağce, Betül Kübra (2008). II. Abdulhamid kızı Naime Sultan'in Hayati (Postgraguate Thesis) (in Turkish). Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
  • Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara: Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
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