Şehzade Ömer Hilmi
| Şehzade Ömer Hilmi | |
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| Colonel of Inf. Ottoman Army | |
| Born | 2 March 1886 Veliahd Palace, the Crown Prince’s Palace, İstanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 6 April 1935 (aged 49) Alexandria, Egypt |
| Spouse | Nesimter Hanım Gülnev Hanım Faika Hanım Bahtıter Hanım Mediha Hanım |
| Issue | Prince Mahmud Namık Princess Emine Mükbile |
| House | Imperial House of Osman |
| Father | Sultan Mehmed V Reşad |
| Mother | Mihrengiz Kadın |
| Religion | Islam |
| Imperial Ottoman Dynasty | |
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| Country | Ottoman Empire |
| Founded | 1299 |
| Founder | Osman I |
| Dissolution | 1922 |
Şehzade Ömer Hilmi, Colonel of Infantry of the Ottoman Army Omer Hilmi, Prince (Şehzade) Ömer Hilmi Efendi was born at the Veliahd Palace (the Crown Prince’s Palace), Ortaköy, Istanbul on 2 March 1886, as the third son of Mehmed V, by his third wife Empress Mihrengiz Kadın. He was educated privately. He received the Collar of the Hanedan-i-Ali-Osman and the Nişan-ı-Ali-Imtiyaz, GC of the Order of Leopold of Austria (1917).
Ömer Hilmi Efendi lived most of his life in İstanbul in the restrictive surroundings of Dolmabahçe Palace. He was born in the apartments reserved for the Veliahd, the Crown Prince, and then moved into the main palace once his father had become the Ottoman Sultan on 27 April 1909. Together with his brother, he tried to support his father during the difficult years of the First World War. On the death of his father on 4 July 1918, just before the end of the war, he and his family left Dolmabahçe Palace and moved to a Konak at Nişantaşı during the winter months and to one in Bağlarbaşı, above Beylerbeyi, for the summer.
Following the establishment of the Turkish Republic and the abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate and the Ottoman Caliphate, the entire Imperial Ottoman family were forced into exile in March 1924. Aged 38, Ömer Hilmi Efendi, left Turkey never to return, since he died before the decree of exile was lifted. He went into exile with his mother, Mihrengiz Kadınefendi, who had been the wife of Sultan Mehmed V, and with his two young children, Mahmud Namık Efendi and Princess Emine Mükbile Sultan. Like all other members of the Imperial family, they left İstanbul from Sirkeci Train Station and first went to Budapest. They lived here for a few months, then moved to Vienna, then Paris, before settling in Nice, France. As the former Ottoman Sultan, Sultan Mehmed VI, had settled in San Remo, many members of the family had congregated in the South of France. After living in Switzerland for a short time, his cousin, the last Caliph of Islam Prince Abdulmecid, also moved to Nice. Ömer Hilmi Efendi spent the next 11 years of his life in Nice, struggling to adapt to life in exile, before moving to Alexandria, Egypt in January 1935 with his family. Life in exile was always very difficult since members of the Imperial Ottoman family had no financial means, and all yearned to return to their homeland.
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