Şükriye Sultan


Şükriye Sultan was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of heir to the throne Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, son of Sultan Abdulaziz, and Leman Hanım.

Early life

Şükriye Sultan was born on 24 February 1906 in Çamlıca Palace. Her mother was Leman Hanım. 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.

First marriage

Şükriye Sultan married her cousin Şehzade Mehmed Şerefeddin, son of Şehzade Selim Süleyman, grandson of Sultan Abdulmejid I on 14 November 1923 in the Nişantaşı Palace. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Şükriye, her husband and her mother-in-law Ayşe moved to Beirut, where the two divorced in 1927. After which he married Mübbecel Bezmiâlem Hanım.

Second marriage

Following her divorce, she moved to Cairo, where she married Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, tenth ruler of Kuwait, on 4 September 1935.

Third marriage

After the two divorced in 1949, she married Mehmed Şefik Ziya, an American citizen of Turkish Cypriot ethnicity.
In 1952, Şükriye Sultan, her husband, and her sister returned to Istanbul after the revocation of the law of exile for princesses. Here she settled in Çamlıca Palace. She was widowed by his death in 1970.

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.

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