Emine Sultan (daughter of Abdülaziz)


Emine Sultan was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz and Nesrin Kadın.

Early life

Emine Sultan was born on 24 August 1874 in at the Dolmabahçe Palace. Her father was Sultan Abdulaziz, and her mother was Nesrin Kadın, the daughter of Prince Ismail Zevş-Barakay. She was the youngest daughter of her father and the second child of her mother. She was the younger full sister of Şehzade Mehmed Şevket. She was the granddaughter of Mahmud II and Pertevniyal Sultan.
Her father, Abdulaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876, his nephew Murad V became the Sultan. He was transferred to Feriye Palace the next day. The women of Abdulaziz's entourage didn't wanted to leave the Dolmabahçe Palace. So they were grabbed by hand and were send out to the Feriye Palace. In the process, they were searched from head to toe and everything of value was taken from them. On 4 June 1876, Abdulaziz died under mysterious circumstances.
Her mother died a few days later, on 11 June 1876, when Emine Sultan was not yet two years old, her older brother the crown prince Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin raised her in his household.

Marriage

In 1901, Sultan Abdul Hamid II arranged her trousseaux and marriage together with two of Sultan Murad V daughters, princesses Hatice Sultan and Fehime Sultan. At the age of twenty seven, she married Mehmed Şerif Pasha on 3 September 1901 in the Yıldız Palace.
The couple were given the palace of Mehmed Sadık Pasha located in Çarşıkapı. The two together had a daughter named Hamide Hanımsultan.

Death

Emine Sultan died on 30 January 1920 at age of forty five in Istanbul, and was buried in the mausoleum of Sultan Mahmud II, Divanyolu, Istanbul.

Ancestry