Hatice Şükriye Sultan (; "''respectful lady''" and "''grateful''"; 24 February 1906 – 1 April 1972) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of heir to the throne

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, son of Sultan

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, and Leman Hanım.

Early life

Şükriye Sultan was born on 24 February 1906 in her father's villa in Çamlıca. Her father was

and her mother was Leman Hanım. She was the second child, and eldest daughter born to her father and the eldest child of her mother. She had two younger siblings, a brother, Şehzade Mehmed Nizameddin, two years younger than her, and a sister, Mihriban Mihrişah Sultan, ten years younger than her. Her father committed suicide on 1 February 1916, when she was ten years old. She was the granddaughter of

and Dürrünev Kadın.

First marriage

Şükriye Sultan married her second cousin

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, son of

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, and grandson of Sultan

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. The wedding took place on 14 November 1923 in the Nişantaşı Villa. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Şükriye, and her husband moved to Paris, where they lived until 1925, and then to Egypt, where she was joined by her sister Mihrişah Sultan and Cavidan Hanım, her father's second consort. Later their moved to Beirut, where the two divorced in 1927.

Second marriage

On 4 September 1935, she married

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. They divorced in 1937. On 10 February 1938, she was engaged to Midhat Bey, son of Ziver Pasha. However, the marriage, didn't take place. In 1944, she sided with

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when the council chose Şehzade

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as the head of the family.

Third marriage

In April 1949, she married Mehmed Şefik Ziya (1894 – 1980) an American citizen of Turkish Cypriot ethnicity. In 1952, she, her husband, and her sister returned to Istanbul after the revocation of the law of exile for princesses. Here she settled in Çamlıca Villa.

Death

Şükriye Sultan died on 1 April 1972 at the age of sixty-six and was buried in the mausoleum of her great grandfather Sultan

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, Divanyolu,

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. Mehmed Şefik afterwards married Neslişah Sultan, daughter of

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Honours

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* Order of Charity, 1st Class *

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Ancestry

References

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