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Early years

Shafaq Nur Hanim had been a servant in the household of Isma'il's mother

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. When Isma'il was about twenty years old, his mother presented him with Shafaq Nur. He began his sexual activity under the watchful eye of his mother. Shafaq Nur gave birth to his second child, and his first surviving son, Tewfik Pasha, on 30 April 1852 at the Qasr al-Maniyal Palace. Although Isma'il had married the first three princesses ahead of Shafaq Nur, she undoubtedly had high standing in his harem as the mother of his oldest son and as a former member of his mother's household. She was often referred to in the sources as "Walida" or "Mother". In 1866, fourteen years after Tewfik's birth, Ismail married Shafaq Nur as the Egyptian law required to marry the mother of the heir apparent, and elevated her to the position of the "Fourth Princess". Not long after, she and her son established a separate residence in al-Qubba Palace. She took her due place with the other wives of Ismail Pasha on all state occasions. In Egypt she was known as ''Deurtundju Hanim'' or Fourth Lady. She mostly wore traditional Ottoman garments, featuring a few western details.

As Walida Pasha

Isma'il was deposed by the Sultan

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acting on the advice of the European powers, on 26 June 1879, and his son became the Khedive and Shafaq Nur became the Walida Pasha. Shafak Nur exerted considerable influence on him emerging as his staunch defender as the royal family split on the 'Urabi revolution.

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Death

Shafaq Nur Hanim died at the Kasr al-'Ali Palace on 17 March 1884, and was buried in the Khedival Mausoleum,

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Early years

As Walida Pasha

Death

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