15 Facts About Gevheri Sultan

Fatma Gevheri Sultan was an Ottoman princess, musician, and composer.

Gevheri Sultan was the daughter of Sehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin, son of Sultan Abdulaziz.

Gevheri Sultan was the only daughter born to her father.

Gevheri Sultan had an elder full brother, Sehzade Mahmud Sevket, one year older than her, and an older half-brother Sehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz.

Gevheri Sultan was still living there and was striving to make ends meet.

Gevheri Sultan lived with her uncle's family for a few years, then became engaged to the son of a minor raja from India, but a short time before her wedding it was discovered that she was having an affair with someone else, so the engagement was canceled.

Gevheri Sultan's uncle was so angry that he sent her to stay with her mother, who barely had anything to live on.

Gevheri Sultan learned to play several instruments from her father.

Gevheri Sultan played the tanbur, kemence, ud, lavta, piano, violin and drums.

Gevheri Sultan composed vocal and instrumental pieces in various makams.

Gevheri Sultan's work is preserved in recordings made by Turkish radio and TV.

Gevheri Sultan used to play piano, fiddle, drums and composed them with a good tune.

In 1952, Gevheri Sultan returned to Istanbul after the revocation of the law of exile for princesses.

Gevheri Sultan spent her last years with her cousin Mihrisah Sultan, daughter of her uncle crown prince Sehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, in a spacious apartment in Taksim Square.

Gevheri Sultan died on 10 December 1980 at the age of seventy-six, and was buried in the mausoleum of her great-grandfather Sultan Mahmud II, Divanyolu, Istanbul.