Princess Durru Shehvar | |||||
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Princess Consort of Berar Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire |
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Born |
Çamlıca Palace, Üsküdar, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
26 January 1914||||
Died | 7 February 2006 London, England |
(aged 92)||||
Spouse | Azam Jah | ||||
Issue |
Prince Mukarram Jah Muffakham Jah |
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House | House of Osman (by birth) | ||||
Father | Abdülmecid II | ||||
Mother | Atiyye Mihisti Kadın Efendi |
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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.