Nermin Sultan

Hamide Nermin Nezahet Sultan (; 27 January 1923 – 7 November 1998) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Mahmud Şevket, son of Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin and Nervaliter Hanım and Adile Hanımsultan, daughter of Mehmed Kemaleddin Pasha and Naime Sultan.

Biography Hamide Nermin Nezahat Sultan was born on 27 January 1923 in the Üsküdar Palace. Her father was Şehzade Mahmud Şevket, son of Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin and Nervaliter Hanım. Her mother was Adile Hanımsultan, daughter of Mehmed Kemaleddin Pasha and Naime Sultan. She developed bone tuberculosis at a young age, and was afflicted with that throughout her life. Her parents settled in Egypt, where they divorced in 1928.

Nermin and her grandmother lived in Cimiez. Henri Matisse, one of the most prominent French painters, lived in her neighbouring house, and one day he met Nermin, whom he found really beautiful. The painting later rose to prominence, and in 2015 it was put up for auction for €15 million at Sotheby's in London. However following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, she again had to leave Egypt, after which she settled in Algeria. Nermin got a job in United Nations and provided social counselling to the refugees. She was active during Algerian War of Independence.

Following the independence of Algeria from France, Nermin moved to Bagnols-sur-Cèze to live with her father Mahmud. After her father's death in 1973, she started to receive his pension. Nermin became penniless after her father's death, and remained bedridden until her death.

Nermin died on 7 November 1998 at a local hospital's ward at the age of seventy five and was buried there.

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