Şükriye Sultan

Şükriye Sultan (Turkish: Hatice Şükriye Sultan; Ottoman Turkish: خدیجه شکریه سلطان‎; 24 February 1906 – 1 April 1972) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of heir to the throne Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, son of Sultan Abdulaziz, and Leman Hanım.

Şükriye Sultan
Born(1906-02-24)24 February 1906
Çamlıca Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died1 April 1972(1972-04-01) (aged 66)
Çamlıca Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
Burial
Sultan Mahmud II Mausoleum, Divanyolu, Istanbul
Spouse
  • Şehzade Mehmed Şerefeddin
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1923; div. 1927)​
  • Mehmed Şefik Ziya
    ​
    ​
    (her d. 1972)​
Full name
Turkish: Hatice Şükriye Sultan
Ottoman Turkish: خدیجه شکریه سلطان‎
DynastyOttoman
FatherŞehzade Yusuf Izzeddin
MotherLeman Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Şükriye Sultan was born on 24 February 1906 in Çamlıca Palace. Her father was Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin and her mother was Leman Hanım.[1] She was the second child, and eldest daughter born to her father and the eldest child of her mother. She had two younger siblings, a brother, Şehzade Mehmed Nizameddin, two years younger than her, and a sister, Mihrişah Sultan, ten years younger than her. She was the granddaughter of Abdulaziz and Dürrünev Kadın.[2]

First marriage

Şükriye Sultan married her second cousin Şehzade Mehmed Şerefeddin,[3] son of Şehzade Selim Süleyman, and grandson of Sultan Abdulmejid I. The wedding took place on 14 November 1923 in the Nişantaşı Palace. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Şükriye, and her husband moved to Paris, where they lived until 1925,[4] and then to Beirut, where the two divorced[4] in 1927.[2]

Second marriage
Şükriye (far right) at the Ottoman family reunion circa 1938 at Villa Kamal in Maadi

Şükriye was then engaged to Midhat Bey, son of Ziver Pasha.[5][6] However, the marriage, didn't took place,[5][6] and she married Mehmed Şefik Ziya (1894 – 1980)[3] an American citizen of Turkish Cypriot ethnicity.[5][6] In 1944, she sided with Şehzade Ömer Faruk when the council chose Şehzade Ahmed Nihad as the head of the family.[7] In 1952, she, her husband, and her sister returned to Istanbul after the revocation of the law of exile for princesses. Here she settled in Çamlıca Palace.[8][9]

Death

Şükriye Sultan died on 1 April 1972 at the age of sixty-six and was buried in the mausoleum of her great grandfather Sultan Mahmud II, Divanyolu, Istanbul.[2] Mehmed Şefik afterwards married Neslişah Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir.[10]

Titles, styles and honours
Styles of
Şükriye Sultan
Reference styleHer Imperial Highness
Spoken styleYour Imperial Highness

Titles and styles
  • 24 February 1906 – 1 November 1922: Her Imperial Highness Princess Hatice Şükriye Sultan of Ottoman Empire

Honours
Ottoman honours

Ancestry

References
  1. Reşad, Ekrem; Osman, Ferid (1911). Musavver nevsâl-i Osmanî. p. 68.
  2. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 15, 27.
  3. Vâsıb, Ali; Osmanoğlu, Osman Selaheddin (2004). Bir şehzadenin hâtırâtı: vatan ve menfâda gördüklerim ve işittiklerim. YKY. p. 441. ISBN 978-9-750-80878-4.
  4. Milanlıoğlu, Neval (2011). Emine Naciye Sultan'ın Hayatı (1896-1957). pp. 13 r. 55, 126–27.
  5. Ercüment Ekrem Talu; Tahsin Yıldırım (2005). Şehzade Yusuf İzzeddin öldürüldü mü, intihar mı etti?. Selis. p. 16. ISBN 978-975-8724-47-5.
  6. Tahsin Yıldırım (2006). Veliaht Yusuf İzzeddin. Çatı Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-975-8845-21-7.
  7. Bardakçı, Murat (2017). Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. Oxford University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-9-774-16837-6.
  8. Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı (1994). İstanbul ansiklopedisi. Kültür Bakanlığı. p. 536. ISBN 978-9-757-30607-8.
  9. Kurşun, Zekeriya (2005). Üsküdar Sempozyumu: Bildiriler. Üsküdar Belediyesi. p. 344. ISBN 978-9-759-20195-1.
  10. Bardakçı, Murat (2008). Son Osmanlılar: Osmanlı hanedanının sürgün ve miras öyküsü. İnkılâp. p. 176. ISBN 978-9-751-02616-3.
  11. Virgül, Issues 80-83. Pusula Yayıncılık. 2005. p. 41.
  12. Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG. Künker Auktion 299 - Orden und Ehrenzeichen aus aller Welt: Das Osmanische Reich, The Ottoman Collection, Teil 2. Numismatischer Verlag Künker. pp. 146–7.
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