Rumeysa Hayrıdil Aredba (born Princess Hatice Aredba; 1873 - 1927) was an Abkhazian princess. She was a lady-in-waiting to Nazikeda Kadın, wife of

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 ...

, the last Sultan of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

. She is known for writing memoirs, which give details of the exile, and personality of Sultan Mehmed at San Remo.

Life

Rumeysa Hanim was born as Hatice in 1873 in Abkhazia. She was a member of the Abkazian princely family, Aredba. Her father was Prince Halil Bey Aredba. She had an elder sister Amine Seten who was renamed Nazikeda, and married to

Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin ( ota, شهزادہ یوسف عزالدین; 29 September 1857 – 1 February 1916) was an Ottoman prince, the eldest son of Sultan Abdulaziz and his first wife Dürrünev Kadın. Early life and education Şehzade Yusuf I ...

, and a younger sister, Pakize Hanım, married to Esad Bey, a Hungarian. In 1876, she had been brought to Istanbul as a young child, where she was entrusted to the imperial harem. She was then sent to

Cemile Sultan Cemile Sultan ( ota, جمیله سلطان; "''beautiful, radiant''"; 17 August 1843 – 26 February 1915) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Düzdidil Hanım. She was the half sister of Sultans Murad V, Abdul Hami ...

's palace in Kandilli, where her name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Rumeysa Hayrıdil Hanim. After her cousin Emine who had been renamed Nazikeda, married Şehzade Vahideddin (future Sultan

) in 1885, she became senior

lady-in-waiting A lady-in-waiting or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman but of lower rank than the woman to whom sh ...

to her. She spent most of her life with the family of Sultan Mehmed. At the exile of the imperial family in 1924, she accompanied them to San Remo. During the exile she wrote memoirs which give details of the exile, and personality of Sultan Mehmed, by the name of ''Sultan Vahdeddinin San Remo Günleri''. After Mehmed's death in 1926, she returned to

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

, where she died of cancer in 1927.

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