17 Facts About Fehime Sultan

Fehime Sultan was born on 2 July 1875 in the Dolmabahce Palace.

Fehime Sultan was the fifth child, and second daughter born to her father and the only child of her mother.

Fehime Sultan's birth was kept secret until his father became Sultan, the Ottoman Princes being forbidden to have children at the time.

At the time of her family's confinement, Fehime Sultan was one years old and she grew up without knowing any other life.

Fehime Sultan was not particularly pretty but she fancied herself so and wanted everyone else to think so too.

Fehime Sultan showed little inclination to read books despite the fact that she could read and write both Turkish and French.

Fehime Sultan lost her mother at around sixteen, due to a brief illness that got worse due to an accident.

Fehime Sultan ordered one of the villas at Ortakoy to be completely renovated and another new villa to be built.

Fehime Sultan had them completely furnished, then ordered photographs taken of them and sent the photographs to Murad.

Fehime Sultan, who had never left the palace, was frightened when she saw the carriage and horses sent for them.

Fehime Sultan remained childless and the marriage was unhappy, despite the fact that her husband, who was in love, tried in every way to make his wife happy and spent a lot of money to satisfy her every wish.

In 1909, after the scandal and divorce of her sister Hatice, Fehime Sultan was finally able to get permission to divorce.

Fehime Sultan was particularly a valuable source of information to the underground.

Fehime Sultan had no love for her uncle, Sultan Mehmed VI, who had kept the children of Sultan Murad under close surveillance.

Fehime Sultan started selling Turkish style ice cream in front of a grocery store in Rue de Congres, but in the end he fled, leaving her in poverty.

Fehime Sultan survived only thanks to a few faithful eunuchs, who with their meager possessions helped him at least to eat and have a home.

Fehime Sultan died of tuberculosis on 15 September 1929, at the age of fifty-four and was buried in the cemetery of the Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, Damascus, Syria.