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Princess Durru Shehvar

Princess Durru Shehvar
Princess Consort of Berar
Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire
Born (1914-01-26)26 January 1914
Çamlıca Palace, Üsküdar, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died 7 February 2006(2006-02-07) (aged 92)
London, England
Spouse Azam Jah
Issue Prince Mukarram Jah
Muffakham Jah
Full name
Khadija Hayriya Aisha Durr-i-Shahvar
House House of Osman (by birth)
Father Abdülmecid II
Mother Atiyye Mihisti Kadın Efendi
Full name
Khadija Hayriya Aisha Durr-i-Shahvar

Princess Begum Sahiba Khadija Hayriya Aisha Durru Shehvar (Ottoman Turkish: خدیجہ خیریہ عائشہ در شہوار‎; Turkish: Hatice Hayriye Ayşe Dürrüşehvar Sultan; 26 January 1914 – 7 February 2006) was the daughter of Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman dynasty, who was the last heir apparent to the Imperial Ottoman throne and the last Caliph of the Muslim world. She held the titles of Princess of Berar through marriage, and Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire by birth before the monarchy's abolition in 1922.

The princess was born in Üsküdar, Istanbul when the Ottoman Empire was passing through its last phase. Her father, Caliph Abdülmecid II, went into exile in Paris, France after the abolition of the Caliphate by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1924.

Upon the family's exile to France in 1924, she was sought by the Shah of Persia and King Fuad I of Egypt as a bride for their respective heirs, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Farouk, and by Prince Azam Jah (1907–1970), the eldest son and heir of the last Nizam of Hyderabad State, Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII, whom she married in Nice, France, on 12 November 1931. Her first cousin Princess Niloufer, was married to Prince Moazzam Jah, the second son of the Nizam.


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