Adile Sultan (, "''justice, fairness''"; 10 February 1887 – 6 December 1973) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of

Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin Efendi (; 5 August 1861 – 29 April 1915) was an Ottoman prince, the only surviving son of Sultan Murad V, and his second consort Reftarıdil Kadın. Early life Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin was born on 5 August 186 ...

, son of Sultan

Murad V Murad V (; ; 21 September 1840 – 29 August 1904) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 30 May to 31 August 1876. The son of Abdulmejid I, he supported the conversion of the government to a constitutional monarchy. His uncle Abdulaziz ...

. Her mother was Tevhide Zatıgül Hanım.

Early life

Adile Sultan was born on 10 February 1887 in the Çırağan Palace. Her father was

, son of

and

Reftarıdil Kadın Reftarıdil Kadın (, "''resurrection''"; 1838 – 3 March 1936) was the second consort of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Reftarıdil Kadın was born in about 1838. She was a noble Circassian-Abkazian from Hatko family and had ...

. Her mother was Tevhide Zatıgül Hanım, daughter of Ibrahim Bey and Hanım. She had two older full sisters, Celile Sultan and Rukiye Sultan, a younger full brother, Şehzade Mehmed, stillborn, and a younger full sister, Emine Atiye Sultan. She spent her early years in confinement in the Çırağan Palace, which at the time served as a prison for Murad V, deposed in 1876 by his half-brother Abdülhamid II, and his entire family. The confinement ended with Murad V's death in 1904.

Marriages

Her first husband was Faik Bey. They married on 15 May 1910 in the Göztepe Palace. They did not have children and divorced in 1913. Her second husband was Moralizade Selaheddin Ali Bey. He was the son of Moralizade Mehmed Ali Bey and Zehra Aliye Hanım. They married on 3 April 1914 in the Göztepe Palace. Their only child, a daughter,

Nilüfer Hanımsultan Nilüfer is the Turkish word for "water lily", from Persian ''nîlûfar'' (نیلوفر), which is ultimately derived from the Sanskrit word for the blue lotus ''nīḷōtpaḷa'' (नीळोत्पळ). It is a popular feminine given name ...

, was born on 4 January 1916. Adile was widowed at Ali Bey's death in December 1918.

Philanthropy

In about 1911 the Kadıköy (Osmanlı) Fukaraperver Cemiyeti Hanımlar Şubesi was established under the patronage of Adile Sultan. It provided food, medicines and clothes to orphans, widows and old and disabled women. It also provided clothing for the children of two schools and gave a breakfast consisting of a bowl of soup and a slice of bread to more than a hundred persons every day. She was also the patron of the Müdafaa-i Milliye Cemiyeti Kadıköy (Merkezi) Hanımlar şubesi (Women's Branch of the (Central) Kadıköy National Defense Organization).

Life in exile

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, she and her daughter settled in France, taking up residence in the Mediterranean city of Nice. In 1931, her daughter married Moazzam Jah, younger son of Mir Osman Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad, after which she traveled to India with her to help her settle in. Niloufer divorced Moazzam in 1952, returned to France and shared a flat with Adile in Paris.

Death

Adile died on 6 December 1973 in Paris, France, and was buried in Bobigny cemetery.

Honours

* Order of Medjidie, Jeweled * Order of Charity, 1st Class * Navy Medal in Gold

Issue

In literature

* Adile Sultan is a character in Ayşe Osmanoğlu's historical novel The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus (2020).

Ancestry

References

Sources

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Adile Sultan 1887 births Royalty from Istanbul 19th-century Ottoman princesses 20th-century Ottoman princesses Exiles from the Ottoman Empire 1973 deaths