Pertevniyal Sultan
| Pertevniyal Sultan | |
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| Valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire | |
| Tenure | 25 June 1861 – 30 May 1876 |
| Predecessor | Nakşidil Sultan |
| Successor | Şevkefza Kadın |
| Born | Hasna Khater c. 1812 Circassia, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 5 February 1883 (aged 71) Beşiktaş Palace, Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Burial | Pertevniyal Valide Sultan Mosque, Aksaray, Istanbul |
| Spouse | Mahmud II |
| Issue | Abdülaziz |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Pertevniyal Sultan (c. 1812 – 5 February 1883), sometimes called Besime and Hasna was a consort of Sultan Mahmud II, and Valide Sultan to their son Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire. Her sister, Hoşyar Kadın, was the mother of Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879.
The final illness of Abdülmecid I in 1861 started a spate of rumors that there was a group in the palace who wanted Murad to succeed to the throne instead of Abdülaziz. There seems to have been no truth in these allegations, but they nevertheless worried Abdülaziz and especially his mother, Pertevniyal. On the night when Abdülmecid died and the grand vizier, the kapudan pasha, and the commander-in-chief of the Army conducted Abdülaziz from the heir's suite to the ruler's suite in Dolmabahçe Palace, Pertevniyal thought they were taking him prisoner. They waited in the sultan's suite until the imperial cliques were ready, and then escorted Abdülaziz to Topkapı Palace, the palace of his forebears, to await the gathering of the council of ministers, some of whom had to be summoned from their homes up the Bosphorus. Pertevniyal, to reassure herself, followed him there.
Mother of Abdülaziz, who made an official visit to France, United Kingdom and Prussia in 1867. In 1868, Empress Eugénie of France returned the visit, and was taken by the sultan to his mother in the Dolmabahçe Palace, but reportedly, Pertevniyal became outraged by the presence of a foreign woman in her harem, and greeted the Empress with a slap in the face, almost provoking an international incident. The visit of the Empress, however, did leave a lasting effect by making Western fashion popular among the harem women.
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