Münire Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Kemaleddin)

Münire Sultan was born on 5 April 1880 in the Dolmabahçe Palace. Her father was Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin, and her mother was Fatma Sezadil Hanım.[1] She was the second child born to her father and mother. She had a sister Atiyeullah Sultan, two years elder then her, who died as a child. She was the granddaughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Verdicenan Kadın.[2]

In 1907, Abdul Hamid arranged her marriage[3] to Mehmed Salih Pasha, son of Grand Vizier Hayreddin Pasha the Tunisian, who was one of Sultan Abdulmejid's grand viziers. The marriage took place on 10 January 1907 in the Yıldız Palace.[4] The two together had a son, Sultanzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Bey, born on 18 June 1908 in the Nişantaşı Palace.[2] Salih Pasha was accused of being in the assassination of the grand vizier General Mahmud Şevket Pasha and was condemned to death in 1913. Münire and her mother Sezadil solicited Sultan Mehmed V to not sign the death sentence, but the sultan signed the death without any objection, and so Salih Pasha was hanged on 11 June 1913.[5][1][6]

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Münire Sultan and her son settled firstly in Tunisia where they lived for four years and later settled in Nice, France.[5] Here the two had very few financial means. And she was not around much, as she was still mourning the death of her husband.[6] She died on 7 October 1939 at aged fifty nine, and was buried there.[1][2]

• Order of the House of Osman[7]
• Order of the Medjidie, Jeweled[7]
• Order of Charity, 1st Class[7]
• Hicaz Demiryolu Medal in Gold[7]

Münire and Mehmed Salih had one son:

• Sultanzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Bey (Nişantaşı Palace, 18 June 1908 - Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1987), married without issue;

• Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.