Mihrimah Sultan

Mihrimah Sultan (; after marriage Mihrimah Sultan Nayef; 14 April 1923 – 30 March 2000) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin, son of Mehmed V. She was also a Jordanian princess, as wife of Prince Nayef bin Abdullah, the son of Abdullah I of Jordan, emir of Emirate of Transjordan.

Early life Mihrimah Sultan was born on 14 April 1923, in her father's villa located at Haydarpasha. Her father was Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin, son of Sultan Mehmed V and Kamures Kadın and her mother was Neşemend Hanım. She was the eighth child and youngest daughter of her father and the only child of her mother. She was the first princess to be born after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

She had green eyes.

Marriage In 1940, during the ongoing World War II, Mihrimah married Prince Nayef bin Abdullah of Jordan, youngest son of King Abdullah I of Jordan. The marriage contract was signed on 30 September 1940 and the wedding was held on 7 October 1940 in the villa of Mihrimah's elder half-sister Lütfiye Sultan, which was a wartime scene during the wedding. The wedding was a major national event in Jordan, lasting seven days and seven nights. She was a great deal more independent and free-thinking than most other women of her standing, and unlike other women of the court, who hid their faces behind black veils, she used only a light transparent veil to cover half her face.

Later life and death After her husband's death in 1983, she went on to live in the United States and the United Kingdom for some time and returned to Jordan. Prince Sultanzade Ali bin Nâyef (b. 10 August 1941). He married Wijdan Muhana (b. 1939, Baghdad) on 11 April 1966. They have three daughters and a son: Princess Naafa bin Ali (b. 27 December 1966) Princess Rajwa bin Ali (b. 29 June 1968) Princess Basma Fatima bin Ali (b. 24 March 1970) Prince Mohammed Abbas bin Ali (b. 17 February 1973) Prince Sultanzade Abubakr Asem bin Nâyef (b. 27 April 1948). He married twice: Firouzeh Vokhshouri. They have three daughters: Princess Yasmin bin Asem (born 30 June 1975), married on 2 September 2005 Basel Yaghnam. Princess Sara bin Asem (born 12 August 1978), married on 26 June 2008 Alejandro Garrido. They have a son and a daughter. Princess Noor bin Asem (born 6 October 1982), married from 29 August 2003 until 9 September 2009 Prince Hamzah bin Hussein. They have a daughter. Married from 22 June 2018 Amr Zedan. They have two sons. Sanaa Kalimat. They have two daughters and a son: Princess Salha bin Asem (born 14 June 1987), married on 4 April 2011 Mohammad Hashim Haj-Hassan. They have a daughter and two sons. Princess Nejla bin Asem (born 9 May 1988), married On 23 October 2014 Nasser Osama Talhouni. They have two children. Prince Nâyef bin Asem (born 22 January 1998), married on 13 April 2021 Sharifa Farah Alluhaymaq.

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