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Can you list consorts and children of mehmed v

Consorts

Kâmures Başkadınefendi (5.3.1855 - 30.4.1921): her name is variously written as Gamres, Kamres or Kamus (in an official record). It's palace teacher Safiye Ünüvar who called her Kamures in her memoirs. In palace records, her place of birth is shown to be Ganja, (now Azerbaijan), but Harun Açba is not so sure it is correct. She married the then-Prince Reşad on 30 September 1872 and a year later she gave birth to her only child, Şehzade ****Mehmed Ziyaeddin. When her husband became sultan, she was appointed Senior Imperial Consort. In 1918 she met King Boris III of Bulgaria and was presented as Queen of the Ottoman Empire. She also welcomed Empress Zita of Austria in the harem. According to Safiye Ünüvar, "[q]uite clearly she had once been beautiful, and she still retained something of her looks.". After Mehmed V's death, she moved in her step-son Necmeddin's palace in Kuruçeşme, and died there on 30 April 1921. She was buried in the mausoleum of Mehmed V Reşad. Princess Leyla Açab visited her when she heard that she was seriously ill: "She was pale, her face emaciated by the illness and her eyes sunken. But her voice was still soft and sweet."

Dürr-i 'Aden 2. Kadınefendi (16.5.1860 - 17.10.1909): official records state that she was born in Kars but Açba believes that she may have born in Sochi, where her family - the Voçibe family - resided. She was Mehmed VI's consort İnşirah Hanım's aunt. Her real name was Hatice and she was given to the Palace when she was very little, probably 3 or 4 years old. When she grew up, she married Şehzade Reşad on 10 October 1876 at the Velihad Mansion in Ortaköy. Two years later she gave birth to her only child, Şehzade Mahmud Necmeddîn, who was born with a hunched back and therefore never married. Her son's disability worried her to the point of sickness; when she contracted tuberculosis she went to the Validebağı Köşkü for a change of air but never recovered and died there on 17 October 1909. She was buried in Gülüstü Kadin's mausoleum.

Mihr-engız 2. Kadınefendi (15.10.1869 - 12.12.1938): official records state that she was born in Adapazarı but Harun Açba believes that she was born in Sochi instead and that she had fled to the Ottoman Empire with her family during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Her real name was Fatma. In any case, she received a good education in the palace, where she learned to play the piano. She married Şehzade Reşad on 4 April 1887. She was very sickly, and Safiye Ünüvar described her like this: "Now, except for the Fourth Consort, the others were quite heavyset, so I cannot refrain from saying that I never expected to meet someone so slim. Later on I heard that she had been suffering from illness for the past few years. [...] I found this gracious and kindly lady and the Prince standing to receive me. Even now as I write these lines, I cannot forget my gratitude at this mark of esteem and respect they displayed toward me, and which I did not in the least deserve". After Mehmed V's death, she moved in her son's palace until the Dynasty was exiled; then they settled in Egypt, where she died in 1938. She was buried in Cairo.

Nâz-perver 3. Kadınefendi (1870 - 1930): a member of the Çikotua noble family, her parents were Prince Ismail Çikotua and Princess Aliye Dziapş-lpa. Her aunt was Dürrinev Kadınefendi, the consort of Sultan Abdülaziz. She took her in the palace at the age of 4 and made her learn French. She witnessed Abdülaziz Han's downfall, after which she lived in Feriye Palace with her aunt. When she grew up, she married Şehzade Reşad in 1888; in the same year she gave birth to her only child, Refia Sultan, who died on the same day she was born. When Safiye Ünüvar met her, she said: "There was something rather sad about her, the cause of which I learned later. It seems that having no children weighed heavily upon her, despite the fact that the Sultan treated her most kindly and graciously, and so she lived out her life in this rather downhearted fashion". She met Empress Zita of Austria and welcomed her in French, at which the Empress, surprised, said: "I did not know that Your Majesty spoke French". Her cousin Princess Mülkicihan Açba described her as such: "She was an exceptionally beautiful woman, with very long curly blonde hair, blue eyes, thick lips, slightly plump but not quite obvious thanks to her height. She spoke French, played the piano, the ud and the zither". During World War I, she visited hospitals; when she went out, people would come out to see her and pray for her. After Mehmed V's death, she first moved to her family's mansion in Beşiktaş and then to Fatma Pesend's in Vaniköy, where she died on 9 March 1930.

Dil-firîb 4. Kadınefendi (1890 - 1938): very little is known about her, she probably was Circassian and born in or near Istanbul. She married Şehzade Reşad in 1907, when he was Crown Prince, although official palace records state she was a gözde. After the death of Dürr-i 'Aden 2. Kadınefendi, she was promoted to the rank of Fourth Imperial Consort. In her memoirs, Safiye Ünüvar wrote that she was friends with her and that their friendship continued until her death. After Mehmed V's death, she lived in Yıldız Palace for a while, then she married a doctor and had a son with him. According to Harun Açba, she died of cancer in Istanbul in 1952; the genealogy of the Ottoman dynasty states instead that she died in 1938. Öztuna believes she died in 1953.

Children

Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin Efendi (26.8.1873 - 30.1.1938): he was circumcised with Şehzade Abdülkaadir (Abdülhamid II's son). He lived in his father's apartments in Balmumcu and Ortaköy Palace from 1873 to 1909, then in Dolmabahçe Palace from 1908 to 1919, then in his own palace in Haydarpaşa until the exile of the Dynasty; at this point, he first settled with his children in Beirut and lastly to Alexandria. In April 1912 he welcomed George V of the United Kingdom and his wife Queen Mary to Egypt, as they were travelling to India. In the years before his death, he sailed on a foreign ship and watched Istanbul from the deck, as he could not enter in Turkey. When he tried to disembark as a common tourist, he was taken back to the ship by the Turkish police. He died in Alexandria of tuberculosis. Ziyaeddin Efendi married five times: to Pemiyân Hanımefendi on 9 January 1898; to Üns-i Yâr Hanımefendi on 16 August 1903; to Perî-zâd Hanımefendi on 18 January 1907; to Melek-seyrân Hanımefendi on 10 November 1911, and to Neş'e-mend Hanımefendi on 10 February 1923. With them, he had 8 children: Behiye Sultan (1900-1950), Dürriye Sultan (1905-1922), Rukiye Sultan (1906-1927), Hayriye Sultan (1908-1943), Şehzade Mehmed Nazim Efendi (1910-1984), Lutfiye Sultan (1910-1997), Şehzade Ömer Fevzi (1912-1986), Mihrimah Sultan (1920-2000)

Şehzade Mahmud Necmeddîn Efendi (23.6.1878 - 27.6.1913): he was circumcised with Şehzade Abdülkaadir (Abdülhamid II's son). His palace in Kuruçeşme passed to his stepmother Kâmures Başkadınefendi after his death. He never married and had no children. He was buried in his father's mausoleum.

Şehzade Ömer Hilmi Efendi (2.3.1886 - 6.4.1935): he was circumcised with Şehzade Abdülkaadir (Abdülhamid II's son). In 1909-13 he lived in Dolmabahçe Palace, in 1918-23 he lived in his palace in Nişantaşı and in his mansion in Bağlarbaşı. After he left Turkey, he lived in Nice from 1924 to 1935, after which he moved to Paris and then to Alessandria (Egypt), where he died. He left a memoir. Hilmi Efendi married thrice: to Hadîce Firdevs Gül-i Nev Başhanımefendi on 3 October 1910; to Baş-ter Başhanımefendi on 16 June 1914 and to Medîha Hanımefendi on 12 July 1921. Hilmi Efendi had two children, both with Hadîce Firdevs Gül-i Nev: Emine Mukbile Sultan (1911-1995), who married Şehzade Ali Vasib (a grandson of Murad V's), and Şehzade Mahmud Namik (1913-1963). Mukbile Sultan is author Ayşe Gülnev Osmanoğlu's grandmother.

Refia Sultan (1888): died on the same day she was born.

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