Mehmed Orhan Osmanoğlu

Şehzade Mehmed Orhan Efendi (; also Mehmed Orhan Osmanoğlu; 12 October 1909 – 12 March 1994) was an Ottoman prince and the 42nd head of the Ottoman dynasty from 1983 to 1994. He was the advisor of King Zog I of the Albanians and succeeded as head of the Ottoman dynasty on 9 December 1983, following the death of Şehzade Ali Vâsib. His father was Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, son of Abdul Hamid II and Bidar Kadın, and his mother was Mihriban Hanım, After his parents divorced in 1913, he and his mother went to live in with his uncle. He was then enrolled in Galatasaray High School

Life in exile At the exile of the Imperial Family in March 1924, Mehmed Orhan settled in Budapest, Hungary. He then went to live with his uncle in Beirut, Lebanon, and then to his aunt Naime Sultan in Nice, France. From here he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lived for two and a half years.

Mehmed Orhan worked as shipbuilder and picture seller at an art gallery in São Paulo, Brazil, taxi driver in Beirut, Lebanon, and Damascus, Syria, a cemetery attendant in the United States of America and an Advisor of King Zog I of the Albanians. In a 1990 feature in Life magazine, he said his legacy is "both sacred and laughable," and said, "To be Ottoman is to know how to breathe with time."

Personal life Mehmed Orhan's first wife was Nafia Hanım. She was the third daughter of Ali Reza Bey of the Yeğen family and wife Nimet Hanım. They married in 1932. She was mother of a daughter, Fatma Necla Sultan, born in 1933. After the two divorced in 1933, she married Prince Abbas Halim of Egypt. Her eldest sister, Berkemal Hanım, was married to Mehmed Abdulaziz, 40th head of the Ottoman dynasty from 1973 to 1977, and was the mother of the couple's only daughter, Hürrem Sultan.

Death Mehmed Orhan died at the age of eighty-four on 12 March 1994 in Nice, France. He was buried two days later on 14 March in the East Side Cemetery in Nice.

Issue Mehmed Orhan had two sons and two daughters:: Fatma Necla Sultan Osmanoğlu (born Cairo, 14 September 1933 – Zürich, 2010) – with Nafia Hanim, married Damat ... Germann and had two sons: Sultanzade Mehmed Erol Germann (born 1952); Sultanzade Osman Cem Germann (born 1963); Şehzade Mehmed Selim Osmanoğlu (born Paris, 3 October 1943) – with Marguerite Fournier, married and had one daughter: Claris Sultan Osmanoğlu (born 1971) Ayten Sultan Osmanoğlu (born 1940s) – with Francesca Franchetti, unmarried and without issue Şehzade Ali Khan Orhan Efende (born in Brazil on 12/11/1962) - with Anna Gomes Pereira Alcalai ), page=24

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