Fatima Neslişah

Princess Fatima Neslişah "(or Nazlishah in arabic)" Osmanoğlu, born 1921, is a granddaughter of the last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI (Vahidettin, her mother's father) and last Ottoman Caliph Abdulmecid II (her father's father Prince Shehzade Ömer Faruk Effendi) [ "Abdulmecid II was chosen as caliph in 1922, he was no longer Sultan, as the National Assembly had abolished the sultanate to turn Turkey into a republic. The caliphate was abolished in turn in 1924" ]

She grew up in Nice, France after being exiled since she was 3 years old, when the Ottoman family left Istanbul.

She was married to the Egyptian Prince Muhammad Abdul Moneim at the Heliopolis Palace, Cairo September 26, 1940, who became the Egyptian Regent after the crowning of the young Fuad II.

They had two children.
*Prince Abbas Hilmi (born 1941)
*Princess Iqbal Hilmi (born 1944)

She lives now in Istanbul, Turkey.

References

ee also

* Ottoman Dynasty
* Line of succession to the Ottoman throne
* Ottoman Empire

References

*cite web
title = Genealogy of Princess Fatma Neslishah as a member of the Ottoman Dynasty
url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~royalty/turkey/i89.html#I89
accessdate = 2008-08-02
*cite web
title = Genealogy of Princess Fatma Neslishah as a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty
url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~royalty/islamic/i183.html#I183
accessdate = 2008-08-02

External links

fr [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQ-vIMk47o interview with Neslişah Sultan on YouTube, about her family's exile]

en tr [http://www.geocities.com/hazemsakr/royal/neslisah.html short biography]