Emine Mükbile

Emine Mükbile Osmanoğlu
H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan
Born	17 September 1911 Dolmabahçe Palace, İstanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died	21 May 1995(1995-05-21) (aged 83) İstanbul, Turkey
Issue	H.I.H. Prince Osman Selaheddin Efendi
House	Imperial House of Osman
Father	Colonel H.I.H. Prince Ömer Hilmi Efendi
Mother	H.H. Hadice Firdevs Gülnev Başhanımefendi
Religion	Islam

H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan with her brother

H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan with her brother

H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Mahmud Namık Efendi

H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan b. Dolmabahçe Palace, 17th September 1911, only daughter of Colonel H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Ömer Hilmi Efendi, and his wife H.H. Hadice Firdevs Gülnev Başhanımefendi, and grand-daughter of H.I.M. Sultan Mehmed V Reşad Han Gazi , 35th Sovereign of the House of Osman. Rcvd: the Collar of the Hanedan-ı-Ali-Osman and the Nişan-ı- Şefkat 1st class.

H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan in exile with her family, her father, her brother and her grandmother

H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan in exile with her family, her father, her brother and her grandmother

Imperial Ottoman Dynasty
Country	Ottoman Empire
Founded	1299
Founder	Osman I
Dissolution	1922

Marriage

m. at Nice, France, 24th April 1931, H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Ali Vassıb Efendi, 41st Head of the Imperial House of Osman (b. at Çırağan Palace, 13th October 1903; d. at Alexandria, 9th December 1983), only son of Colonel H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Ahmed Nihad Efendi, 38th Head of the Imperial House of Osman, by his wife, H.H. Safiru Başhanımefendi, and great-grandson of H.I.M. Sultan Mehmed Murad Han V, 33rd Sovereign of the House of Osman.

Life

H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan was born in Dolmabahçe Palace, İstanbul and lived there until the death of her grandfather, H.I.M. Sultan Mehmed V Reşad, just before the end of World War I on 4th July 1918. She then moved with her family to a Konak at Nişantaşı for the winter months and to one in Bağlarbaşı, above Beylerbeyi, for the summer. As a young child she was taken by her mother, H.H. Hadice Firdevs Gülnev Başhanımefendi, to some military hospitals during WWI, to visit injured Ottoman troops brought back from the front. These visits and the following occupation of Istanbul by Allied troops after the war, made a deep and lasting impression on her. H.I.M. Sultan Mehmed V Reşad acknowledged his daughter-in-law H.H. Hadice Firdevs Gülnev Başhanımefendi for making these hospital visits and for her dedication to charitable causes and awarded her The Imperial Order of Appreciation – First Class. At the age of 8 her mother, H.H. Hadice Firdevs Gülnev Başhanımefendi, died from Spanish influenza, following an epidemic of the disease in İstanbul. Her father’s second wife H.H. Bahtıter Başhanımefendi cared for her and her brother well until their divorce in 1921, and H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan always spoke fondly of her step-mother, who she called ‘minianne’, ‘little mummy’. She visited her in Istanbul in the 1950s once she was permitted to return to Turkey. Following the establishment of the Turkish Republic and the aboliton of the Ottoman Sultanate and the Ottoman Caliphate, the entire Imperial Ottoman family were forced into exile in March 1924. H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan went into exile aged 13, with her father H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Ömer Hilmi Efendi, the son of H.I.M. Sultan Mehmed V Reşad, with her grandmother, H.H. Mihrengiz Kadınefendi, who had been the wife of H.I.M. Sultan Mehmed V Reşad, and with her younger brother, H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Mahmud Namık Efendi. Like all other members of the Imperial family, they left İstanbul from Sirkeci Train Station and first went to Budapest. They lived here for a few months, then moved to Vienna, then Paris, before settling in Nice, France, to be close to the former Ottoman Sultan, H.I.M. Sultan Mehmed VI Vahideddin, who had rented a villa in San Remo, and to their cousin the last Caliph of Islam H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Abdul Mecid II, who lived in Nice. It was in Nice on 24th April 1931 at the Ruhl Hotel that H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan married her cousin H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Ali Vassıb Efendi, however she largely continued to live with her father, grandmother and brother and not with her new husband as she felt it her duty to take care of her family. In January 1935 the family emigrated to Alexandria, Egypt, but only 3 months later H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Ömer Hilmi Efendi died following a stroke. Four years later in 1939 H.H. Mihrengiz Kadınefendi also died, and it was only then, after the deaths of her father and her grandmother, that H.I.H. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan, who had sacrificed the best years of her life for her family, would contemplate having a family of her own with her husband. Her son, and only child, H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Osman Selaheddin Efendi, was born the following year. She found life in exile extremely difficult, and always said her soul had remained in Turkey. Once permitted to return to Turkey in 1974 with her husband, they rented a humble flat in İstanbul in the old part of the city near Sultan Ahmed Square.

She d. at İstanbul, 21st May 1995, and was bur. in the gardens of her grand-father Sultan Reşad’s Mausoleum, Eyüb.

Issue

She had issue, an only son, who became the only Imperial Ottoman Prince whose mother and father were both from the Imperial Ottoman family: H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Osman Selaheddin Efendi. b. at Alexandria, 7th July 1940. educ. Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt, then London to become a Chartered Accountant m. at London, 27th August 1966 (div.), H.H. Athena Joy Hanımefendi. (b. at London, 9th March 1944), née, Christoforides. He has issue, three sons and one daughter.

a) H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Orhan Murad Efendi. b. at Henley-on-Thames, England, 26th December 1972, educ. Degree in Busıness Studies at Kingston Univ, London, has had a career in the IT industry and now works for a Property Holding Company. m. 17th February 2000, H.H. Patricia Emine Hanımefendi née, Iotti. He has issue, two sons: i) H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Turan Cem Efendi. b. at High Wycombe, England, 7th January 2004 ii) H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Tamer Nihad Efendi. b. at High Wycombe, England, 15th April 2006.

b) H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Nihad Reşad Efendi. b. at Reading, England, 17th September 1978. He d. at Marlow, England, 19th December 1978 (bur. Brookwood, England).

c) H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Selim Süleyman Efendi. b. at High Wycombe, England , 15th December 1979. educ. Degree in Business Studies at Kingston Univ, London and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Insurance, a Chartered Insurance Broker and a Member of the Institute of Risk Management. m. at İstanbul, 22nd June 2003, H.H. Alev Hanımefendi, née, Öcal. educ. Boğaziçi University, İstanbul. He has issue, one son: i) H.I.H. Prince (Şehzade) Batu Bayezid Efendi. b. at Sidcup, England, 23rd April 2008

d) H.I.H. Princess Ayşe Gülnev Sultan. b. at Henley-on-Thames, England, 17th January 1971, educ. History and Politics at Exeter Univ. and a Masters degree in Ottoman History at S.O.A.S. London. m. 27th August 1994, H.H. Damad Nicholas Nelson Sutton (b. 18th August 1969), educ. Exeter Univ. and Chartered Accountant, Dir. Property Holding Company. She has issue, four sons and one daughter: i) H.H. Prince (Sultanzade) Maximilian Ali Beyefendi, Sutton. b. at London, 15th January 2000. ii) H.H. Prince (Sultanzade) Cosmo Tarik Beyefendi, Sutton. b. at London, 10th September 2001. iii) H.H. Prince (Sultanzade) Lysander Cengiz Beyefendi, Sutton. b. at London, 12th April 2003. iv) H.H. Prince (Sultanzade) Ferdinand Ziya Beyefendi, Sutton. b. at Sussex, England, 26th July 2006. v) H.H. Princess Tatyana Aliye Hanımsultan, Sutton. b. at Sussex, England, 25th March 2005.

References

{{Foundation for Research on Islamic History Art and Culture (ISAR) - The Ottoman Family on the 700th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Ottoman State by Osman Selaheddin Osmanoğlu

Son Osmanlılar by Murat Bardakçı

The History Files: The Ottoman Empire}}