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Şehzade Ömer Faruk Şehzade Ömer Faruk ( ota, شهزادہ عمر فاروق; 27 February 1898 – 28 March 1969) was an Ottoman prince, the son of last caliph of Muslim world Abdulmejid II and Şehsuvar Hanım. He was the imperial son-in-law of Sultan Mehmed VI ...

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Necla Sultan ( tr, Necla Hibetullah Sultan; ota, نجله هبت الله سلطان 15 May 1926 – 6 October 2006) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter Şehzade Ömer Faruk, the son of last caliph of the Abdulmejid II and

Şehsuvar Hanım Şehsuvar Hanım ( ota, شهسوار خانم; 1881 – 1945; meaning "intrepid hero") was the first wife of Abdulmejid II, the last Caliph of the Ottoman Caliphate. Life Of Turkish, or Ubykh origin, Şehsuvar Hanım was born in 1881. She marr ...

. Her mother was Sabiha Sultan, daughter of Sultan

Mehmed VI Mehmed VI Vahideddin ( ota, محمد سادس ''Meḥmed-i sâdis'' or ''Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn''; tr, VI. Mehmed or /; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as Şahbaba () among the Osmanoğlu family, was the 36th and last Sultan of the O ...

and Nazikeda Kadın.

Early life

Necla Sultan was born on 15 May 1926 in

. Her father was

, son of Abdulmejid II and

, and her mother was Sabiha Sultan, daughter of

and Nazikeda Kadın. She was the youngest child of her parents. She had two sisters, Neslişah Sultan, five years older than her and

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, three years older than her. Upon the news of her birth, her paternal grandfather Abdulmejid, named her Hibetullah, whereas her maternal grandfather Mehmed, send a telegram from Sanremo,

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conveying his blessings and naming her Necla. Hence her name was 'Necla Hibetullah'. However, some hours later another telegram arrived from San Remo, which turned the joyous day to unbearable suffering, Sultan Mehmed died after some hours after the birth of Necla, hence the day turned sorrowful. Necla spend her childhood in France, Behzade Kalfa took care of Necla when she was young. As Behzade had cold relations with her grandfather, she did her competence to set her against her grandmother Şehsuvar, but despite this negative side she took care of Necla adroitly. In 1938, Necla, her parents and sisters moved to Egypt.

Marriage

In 1940, due to

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Necla and her family was impoverished, as Abdulmejid wasn't able to send them money. The same year, her sisters married Egyptian princes, Neslişah married Prince

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, and Hanzade married Prince Muhammad Ali, respectively. In 1943, Necla married Egyptian prince, Amr Ibrahim in

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, hence the three sisters were all married into the same dynasty, and were styled as "Egyptian princesses". The couple's only child, a son Prince Osman Rifat was born on 20 May 1951 in Cairo. In 1953, Necla, her husband and son settled in

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, after the proclamation of Egypt as a republic in 1952. Necla's father, Ömer Faruk developed an increased interest in his cousin Mihrişah Sultan, the daughter of crown prince

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. It was also a public knowledge that things were not going well between Faruk and her mother Sabiha. She and her sisters sided with their mother. Faruk accused Sabiha of turning their daughters against him. But he was already in love with Mihrişah and the issue of the council was just an excuse. In 1948, after twenty-eight years of marriage, Faruk divorced Sabiha, and married Mihrişah, After the revocation of the law of exile for princesses in 1952, her mother moved to Istanbul. Necla was widowed by the death of Amr Ibrahim in 1977.

Death

Necla Sultan died on 6 October 2006, at the age of eighty in

. On 16 October her body was taken to Istanbul. The funeral took place in Bebek Mosque, and was attended by her eldest sister Neslişah, her son Osman Rifat, and other members of Ottoman dynasty. She was buried beside her mother and elder sister Hanzade in

, Istanbul.

Honour

* Dame Grand Cross of the

Order of the Eagle of Georgia The Order of the Eagle of Georgia and the Seamless Tunic of Our Lord Jesus Christ ( ka, საქართველოს არწივისა და უფლისა ჩვენისა იესო ქრისტეს უკერ� ...

Ancestry

References

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Necla Sultan 1926 births 2006 deaths Muhammad Ali dynasty 20th-century Ottoman princesses Egyptian royalty Turkish emigrants to Egypt Turkish emigrants to Switzerland Swiss emigrants to Spain 20th-century Turkish women 21st-century Turkish women Burials at Aşiyan Asri Cemetery