Adile Hanımsultan (; "''Justice, fairness''"; 12 November 1900 – February 1979) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Naime Sultan and Kemaleddin Pasha and granddaughter of Sultan

Abdülhamid II Abdulhamid II or Abdul Hamid II (; ; 21 September 184210 February 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a period of decline wit ...

Early life

Adile Hanımsultan was born on 12 November 1900 in the

Ortaköy Palace Ortaköy (, ''Middle Village)'' is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Beşiktaş, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 9,121 (2024). It is on the European shore of the Bosphorus. it was originally a small fishing villag ...

. Her father was Mehmed Kemaleddin Pasha, son of

Gazi Osman Pasha Osman Nuri Pasha (‎; 1832, Tokat, Ottoman Empire – 4 to 5 April 1900, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire), also known as Gazi Osman Pasha (), was an Ottoman Turkish field marshal. Being one of the most respected and decorated Ottoman pa ...

and Zatıgül Hanım. Her mother was Naime Sultan, daughter of Sultan

Abdul Hamid II Abdulhamid II or Abdul Hamid II (; ; 21 September 184210 February 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a Decline and modernizati ...

and Bidar Kadın. She had an older brother, Sultanzade Mehmed Cahid Osman Bey. She was educated at the Ortaköy Palace. In 1904, when she was four years old, her parents divorced, due to her father's affair with Hatice Sultan, daughter of

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. Her father was stripped of all military honours and ranks and was exiled to

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. He came back to Istanbul in 1909 and died in 1920. Her mother afterwards married İşkodralı Celaleddin Pasha in 1907.

Marriages and descendants

Adile's first husband was Şehzade Mahmud Şevket, son of

Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin Efendi (; 22 September 1874 – 19 October 1927) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Sultan Abdulaziz and Gevheri Kadın. Early life Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin was born on 22 September 1874 in the Çırağan Palace. His ...

and Nervaliter Hanım, and three years her junior. The marriage took place on 4 May 1922 in the Üsküdar Palace, when Adile was twenty two and Mahmud was nineteen years old. The couple was given Kuruçeşme Palace as their residence. On 27 January 1923, she gave birth to the couple's only child, a daughter, Hamide Nermin Nezahet Sultan. Nermin has developed

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, which remained throughout her life. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Adile and her husband firstly settled in

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and then in

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. Their daughter Nermin was taken by her grandmother, Naime, who claimed that Adile and Mahmud were too young to look after her. Nermin then grew up with her in

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. They divorced on 28 March 1928 in

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. In 1930, Adile married Orhan El-Bekri, a wealthy man of Turkish origin. The couple had three children, two daughters and a son, Ayten El-Bekri, Kubilay El-Bekri and Şermin El-Bekri. Her son Kubilay married Gönül Hanım, a woman of Turkish origin. Her daughter Ayten married renowned

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Professor Zekeriya Nasr. Şermin and Ayten both settled in

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Death

In 1952 the law for princesses was passed, which allowed them to return to Turkey; however Adile did not return and chose to remain in

. She died in February 1979 at the age of seventy-eight in Cairo.

Ancestry

References

Sources

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