Dürriye Sultan (; "''shining''"; 3 August 1905 15 July 1922) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of

Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin Efendi (; 26 August 1873 – 30 January 1938) was an Ottoman prince, firstborn of Sultan Mehmed V, born by his first consort Kamures Kadın. Early life Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin was born on 26 August 1873 in his fathe ...

, son of

Mehmed V Mehmed V Reşâd (; or ; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) was the penultimate List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a Constitutional monarchy, constitutional monarch. He had ...

Early life

Dürriye Sultan was born on 3 August 1905 in the

Dolmabahçe Palace Dolmabahçe Palace ( ) is a 19th-century imperial palace located in Istanbul, Turkey, along the European shore of the Bosporus, which served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and from 1909 to 1922. Histor ...

. Her father was

and her mother was Ünsiyar Hanım. She was the second child and daughter of her father and the eldest child of her mother. She had a sister, Rukiye Sultan, one year younger than her, and a brother Şehzade Mehmed Nazım, five years younger than her. She was the granddaughter of Sultan

and

Kamures Kadın Kamures Kadın (; meaning "Bringer of pleasure"; called also Gamres, Kamres or Kamus Kadın; 5 March 1855 – 30 April 1921) was the first and chief consort of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire. Early years Kamures Kadın was born on 5 Mar ...

. In 1915, she began her education with her sister and brother. Their teacher was Safiye Ünüvar, who taught them the Quran. In 1918, after the death of her grandfather, she moved to her father's villa located at Haydarpasha, where she occupied the first floor with her mother and sister. After a while her teacher Safiye Ünüvar also came to her apartment to live with her.

Marriage

Dürriye married Sultanzade Mehmed Cahid Osman Bey, son of Naime Sultan, a 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 Mehmed Kemaleddin Pasha. The marriage took place on 26 March 1920 at the

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, and was performed by Şeyhülislam Haydarîzâde İbrahim Efendi. Her dowry was 1001 purses of gold. After the marriage she moved to Naime Sultan's Palace located on the seashore. Curiously, a marriage between her father and Mehmed Cahid's mother had been considered in the past. In the prenuptial agreement she was given the right to divorce her husband. The two divorced on 6 November 1921 with Şeyhülislam Nuri Efendi's assistance. After the two divorced, her husband married her maternal aunt Laverans Hanım, with whom he had one son, Bülent Osman Bey.

Death

Dürriye Sultan died of tuberculosis on 15 July 1922, at the age of sixteen, and was buried in Haydarpasha, Istanbul. In the same year, the Ayrılık Fountain was repaired in her memory.

Honours

* Order of the House of Osman

Ancestry

References

Sources

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