Shahzadi Khanam (21 November 1569 – ?) was a Mughal princess, the second surviving child and eldest daughter of Mughal Emperor

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Family

Born on 21 November 1569, Shahzadi was the eldest daughter of the Mughal Emperor

. Her mother was a royal concubine named Bibi Salima (not to be confused with

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). When Akbar reached

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, he received the news of her birth. He named her Shahzadi Khanam and ordered rejoicings. She was placed under the care of her grandmother, Mariam Makani. She was well respected by her older half-brother,

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who remarked – ''"Among all my sisters, in integrity, truth, and zeal for my welfare, she is without her equal; but her time is principally devoted to the worship of her creator."'' She deeply grieved the death of her mother, Bibi Salima on 13 May 1599. Akbar "''soothed her somewhat by sympathy and counsels.''"

Marriage

On late September 1593, Shahzada was married to Prince Muzaffar Husain Mirza, son of Prince Ibrahim Husain Mirza, a descendant of Prince Umar Shaikh Mirza, second son of Amir

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. His mother was Gulrukh Begum, daughter of

Kamran Mirza Kamran Mirza ( fa, ) (1512 – 5 October 1557) was the second son of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal Emperor. Kamran Mirza was born in Kabul to Babur's wife Gulrukh Begum. He was half-brother to Babur's eldest s ...

, son of the first Mughal Emperor Babur. Her brother, Jahangir, had already earlier been married to a sister of Muzaffar Husain, Nur-un-Nissa Begum.

Reference

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