Emine Mükbile
| Emine Mükbile Osmanoğlu | |
|---|---|
| Princess Emine Mükbile | |
| Born | 17 September 1911 Dolmabahçe Palace, İstanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 21 May 1995 (aged 83) İstanbul, Turkey |
| Spouse | Prince Ali Vâsib Efendi |
| Issue | Prince Osman Selaheddin Osmanoğlu |
| House | Imperial House of Osman |
| Father | Colonel Prince Ömer Hilmi Efendi |
| Mother | Hadice Firdevs Gülnev Başhanımefendi |
| Religion | Islam |
Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan[1][2][3] b. Dolmabahçe Palace, 17 September 1911, only daughter of Ömer Hilmi Efendi, and his wife Hadice Firdevs Gülnev Başhanımefendi, and grand-daughter of 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.
| Imperial Ottoman Dynasty | |
|---|---|
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| Country | Ottoman Empire |
| Founded | 1299 |
| Founder | Osman I |
| Dissolution | 1922 |
Marriage
Married in Nice, France, on 24 April 1931, Prince Ali Vâsib (Şehzade) 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 Ahmed Nihad Efendi, 38th Head of the Imperial House of Osman, by his wife, Safiru Başhanımefendi, and great-grandson of Sultan Mehmed V, 33rd Sovereign of the House of Osman.
Life
Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan was born in Dolmabahçe Palace, İstanbul, and lived there until the death of her grandfather, Sultan Mehmed V, 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. Sultan Mehmed V acknowledged his daughter-in-law 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, Hadice Firdevs Gülnev Başhanımefendi, died from Spanish influenza, following an epidemic of the disease in İstanbul. Her father’s second wife Bahtıter Başhanımefendi cared for her and her brother well until their divorce in 1921, and 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. Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan went into exile aged 13, with her father Prince Ömer Hilmi Efendi, the son of Sultan Mehmed V, with her grandmother, Mihrengiz Kadınefendi, who had been the wife of Sultan Mehmed V, and with her younger brother, Prince 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, Sultan Mehmed VI, who had rented a villa in San Remo, and to their cousin the last Caliph of Islam Prince Abdul Mecid II, who lived in Nice. It was in Nice on 24th April 1931 at the Ruhl Hotel that Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan married her cousin Prince 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 Prince Ömer Hilmi Efendi died following a stroke. Four years later in 1939 Mihrengiz Kadınefendi also died, and it was only then, after the deaths of her father and her grandmother, that 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. Prince 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 died in İstanbul on 21 May 1995, and was buried 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:
- Prince (Şehzade) Osman Selaheddin Osmanoğlu b. Alexandria, 7 July 1940. educ. Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt, then London to become a Chartered Accountant, m. London, 27 August 1966 (div.), Athena Joy Hanımefendi (b. London, 9 March 1944), née Christoforides. He has issue, three sons and one daughter.
Family Tree
Showing the line of descent from the founder of the Ottoman dynasty to present day through the male descendants of Sultan Murad V
References
- ^ Almanach de Gotha (184th ed.). Almanach de Gotha. 2000. p. 365, 912-915.
- ^ "Hayatta Olan Şehzadeler". Foundation of the Ottoman Dynasty. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- ^ Burke's Royal Families of the World (2 ed.). Burke's Peerage. 1980. p. 247.
Bibliography
- Osmanoğlu, Osman Selaheddin (2003). Bir Şehzadenin Hâtırâtı. Turkey: Yapı Kredi Yayınları. ISBN 9750808789. OCLC 469568294. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
External links
- "Ottoman Family". Official website of the immediate living descendants of the Ottoman Dynasty. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
- "Genealogy of the Ottoman Family". Retrieved 19 August 2008.
- Family Tree, descendants of Sultan Mahmud II. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
