Nemzade Hatice Hanımsultan

HH HH Princess Nemzade Hatice Hanımsultan Kadın Efendi, born 1913, was a great-granddaughter of Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz I. Her mother was Fehime Sultan, daughter of Prince Mahmud Cemaleddin, son of Abdülaziz I. Her grandmother was a sharife, who descended from the Hashemite sharifs of Mecca, deriving from Hasan ibn Ali, the oldest grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, and so are related to the Jordanian royal house.

She grew up in Haskovo, Bulgaria after being exiled since she was 11 years old, when the Ottoman family was exiled from Istanbul.

She was married to the Prince Shehzade Mehmed Şaban Efendi at the Vrana Palace on July 18, 1934.

They had four children:

• HIH Prince Shehzade Mustafa Osmanoğlu (born 1935, died 1999).
• HIH Princess Kıymet Sultan Osmanoğlu (born 1938. She married 1954 King Faisal II of Iraq, but divorced 1956. She lives now in Istanbul, Turkey).
• HIH Prince Shehzade Sefer Osmanoğlu (born 1940, died 1942)
• HIH Prince Shehzade Sebahattin Osmanoğlu (born 1945, died 1998)
  • HIH Prince Shehzade Timur Can Osmanoğlu (born 1978), her only grandson, 20th in the line of succession to the Ottoman throne today, lives in Germany.

They came together with her husband in 1980, after protracted negotiations to Turkey.