Lütfiye Sultan (; "''Well behaved, openhandness''"; 20 April 1910 – 11 June 1997) 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

Lütfiye Sultan was born on 20 April 1910 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 Perizad Hanım. She was the sixth child, and fifth daughter born to her father and the second child of her mother. She had one full-sister, Hayriye Sultan two years older 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. Their teacher was Safiye Ünüvar, who taught them the Quran. According to Ünüvar, she was a beautiful blond haired girl like her sister and mother. Later, during the last years of her grandfather's reign, her parents, her sister and teacher settled in her father's villa in Haydarpasha. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Lütfiye and her family settled first in Beirut and later in Alexandria, Egypt.

Marriage

Lütfiye married Hasan Kemal Bey on 3 June 1932 in

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. A year after the marriage on 7 May 1933 she gave birth to the couple's first child a son, ''Sultanzade'' Ahmed Reşid Bey, who died at the age of twenty five in 1958. A year later on 7 May 1934, she gave birth to the couple's second child, another son, ''Sultanzade'' Reşad Bey. The couple's third child and only daughter Perizad ''Hanımsultan'' was born on 11 January 1936. The family later settled in Maadi, Cairo. Lütfiye's husband was referred to among the Ottoman royals as Damat Kemal denoting his membership in that ethereal cast of Imperial grooms. The couple owned a large handsome villa on Road 10. The villa had been the wartime scene of a historic wedding when her younger sister, Mihrimah Sultan, married

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. Lütfiye was frequently seen driving around Maadi in her American coupé dernier model. She was widowed at Kemal's death in 1958.

Death

Lütfiye died on 11 June 1997 at the age of eighty seven in

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. She was buried in the mausoleum of her grandfather Sultan Mehmed V, located in Eyüp, Istanbul.

Issue

Ancestry

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lutfiye Sultan 1910 births 1997 deaths Royalty from Istanbul 20th-century Ottoman princesses