Fatma Ulviye Sultan ( ota, فاطمه علویه سلطان, "''one who abstain''" and "''exalted, lofty''"; 11 September 1892 – 25 January 1967) was an Ottoman princess, the 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

Fatma Ulviye Sultan was born on 11 September 1892 in her father's palace in Ortaköy. Her father was Sultan

, son of Sultan

Abdulmejid I Abdulmejid I ( ota, عبد المجيد اول, ʿAbdü'l-Mecîd-i evvel, tr, I. Abdülmecid; 25 April 182325 June 1861) was the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839. His reign was notable for the ...

and

Gülistu Kadın Gülistü Kadin, called also Gülüstü Kadin, Gülistu Hanim or Gülüstu Hanim (; ota, کلستو خانم; "''rose in garden''" or "''above rose''"; born Princess Fatma Chachba; 1830 - 1861) was a consort of Sultan Abdulmejid I, and the mothe ...

. Her mother was Nazikeda Kadın, daughter of Hasan Marshan and Fatma Horecan Aredba. She was the second daughter born to her father and mother. She had two sisters, Münire Fenire Sultan, four years elder than her and died as newborn, and Rukiye Sabiha Sultan, two year younger than her. She had a younger half-brother,

Şehzade Mehmed Ertuğrul Şehzade Mehmed Ertuğrul ( ota, شہزادہ محمد ارطغرل; 5 November 1912 – 2 July 1944) was an Ottoman prince, the only son of Sultan Mehmed VI and his wife Müveddet Kadın. Early life Şehzade Mehmed Ertuğrul was born on 5 J ...

, son of

Müveddet Kadın ota, مودت قادین , house = Çıhçı (by birth) Ottoman (by marriage) , father = Kato Davut Çıhcı , mother = Ayşe Hanım , birth_name = Şadiye Çıhçı , birth_date = 12 October 1893 , birth_place = De ...

. Refik Bey, the son of Mihrifelek Hanım, the second kalfa of Sultan Abdulmejid I was appointed teacher to Ulviye, and her younger sister Sabiha Sultan. The two had learned to play piano from Mlle Voçino.

First marriage

In February 1916, after the death of the heir to the throne

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 ...

, her father was given the title of the crown prince. By now Ulviye had grown and reached the age of maturity. Ulviye married Ismail Hakki Pasha, son of the last grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire, Ahmed Tevfik Pasha and his wife Elisabeth Tschumi's on 10 August 1916, in a yalı in Kuruçeşme. The marriage was performed by Şeyhülislam Hayri Efendi. Her dowry was fixed to 1000 gold coins. The couple settled in the yalı in Kuruçeşme. The two together had a daughter, Suade Hümeyra Hanımsultan born on 4 June 1917. In October 1920, her father bought two houses for his daughters in Nişantaşı. The mansions were known as the Twin Palaces. He gave one house to Ulviye Sultan, and the other to Sabiha. Ulviye divorced her husband on 21 June 1922.

Second marriage

After her divorce, Ulviye married Ali Haydar Bey Germiyanoğlu, son of Zülüflü Ismail Pasha on 1 November 1923 in the Nişantaşi Palace. No issue came of this marriage. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Ulviye, her husband and her daughter settled in San Remo. After her father's death in 1926, she moved to

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, and in 1929, she relocated to

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...

. In 1952, Ulviye Sultan and her family 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, ...

after the revocation of the law of exile for princesses. Here she settled in

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with her daughter.

Death

Ulviye Sultan died on 25 January 1967 at the age of seventy-four, and was buried in Aşiyan Cemetery, Istanbul. Her husband outlived her by three years and died in 1970.

Honours

Order of the House of Osman The Order of the House of Osman ( ota, نشانِ خاندانِ آلِ عثمان) was an order of the Ottoman Empire founded on 31 August 1893 by Sultan Abdul Hamid II. It was awarded to senior male and female members of the Imperial family an ...

* Order of the Medjidie, Jeweled * Order of Charity, 1st Class

Issue

Ancestry

References

Sources

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