Princess Niloufer
| Princess Niloufer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
4 January 1916 Göztepe Palace, Istanbul |
||||
| Died | 12 June 1989 (aged 73) Paris, France |
||||
| Spouse |
Moazzam Jah (m. 20 December 1931; div. 20 October 1952) Edward Julius Pope (m. 21 February 1963) |
||||
|
|||||
| House | Imperial House of Osman | ||||
| Father | Damad Moralizada Salar ud-din Bey | ||||
| Mother | Adila Sultana | ||||
| Full name | |
|---|---|
| Niloufer Khanum Sultana Farhat |
Princess Begum Sahiba Niloufer Khanum Sultana Farhat (January 4, 1916 – June 12, 1989) was one of the last princesses of the Ottoman Empire. She was married to the second son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad in India.
Niloufer was born at the Göztepe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey at a time when her mother's family was ruling the Ottoman Empire. Her father was Damad Moralizada Salaruddin Bey Effendi, a prominent member of the Ottoman court. Her mother, Adile Sultan, was a daughter of Shehzade Mehmed Selahaddin, the eldest son of Sultan Murad V, and a sister of Sultan Abdülmecid II, the last caliph.
At the end of World War I, the ruling dynasty were deposed and Turkey was declared a republic. Later, in 1924, the Ottomans were exiled from Turkey and settled in France, taking up their residence in the Mediterranean city of Nice. Several members of their court and extended family, including Niloufer's parents, likewise went into exile in France.
On December 20, 1931, at her maternal uncle's Hilafat Palace in Nice, Niloufer was married at age 16 to Moazzam Jah, second son of the last ruling Nizam of Hyderabad. The Nizam's elder son and heir was married to Niloufer's first cousin, Durre Shehvar, daughter of Sultan Abdülmecid II. After her marriage, Niloufer moved to her father-in-law's court in Hyderabad, India.
Several years passed after the marriage, but still Niloufer did not conceive a child. She found that there were no specialist doctors in Hyderabad whom she could consult. She had to travel to Europe to consult doctors, which she did. During this time, one of her maids died in Hyderabad during childbirth, again as a result of the lack of medical facilities. At that time, there was no specialized hospital for children and mothers in Hyderabad. Childbirth took place mostly at home and even simple complications could prove fatal for mother or child. Niloufer made known to her father-in-law the problems arising due to this lack of medical facilities and as a result, a speciality hospital for women and children was built in the Red Hills area of the city. Indeed, the hospital was named Niloufer Hospital in her honour and she was named its patron, a position she retained as long as she lived in Hyderabad. Even today, the hospital remains a well-known one and is a prominent landmark of the Red Hills neighbourhood.
...
Wikipedia