Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess

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Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was once born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was once recorded in the official register of the palace. In the end, she was once an imperial princess and the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. But she was once the last member of the imperial circle of relatives to be accorded such honors: in 1922 Vahiddedin was once deposed and exiled, replaced as caliph-but not as sultan-by his brother (and Neslishah’s other grandfather) Abdülmecid; in 1924 Abdülmecid was once also got rid of from administrative center, and all the imperial circle of relatives, including three-year-old Neslishah, were sent into exile.
Sixteen years later on her marriage to Prince Abdel Moneim, the son of the last khedive of Egypt, she became a princess of the Egyptian royal circle of relatives. And when in 1952 her husband was once appointed regent for Egypt’s infant king, she took her place at the peak of Egyptian society as the country’s first lady, until the abolition of the monarchy the following year. Exile followed over again, this time from Egypt, after the royal couple faced charges of treason. Eventually Neslishah was once allowed to go back to the city of her birth, where she died at the age of 91 in 2012.
Based on original documents and extensive personal interviews, this account of one woman’s abnormal life may be the story of the end of two powerful dynasties thirty years apart.

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