# Mukbile Sultan

Emine Mukbile Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: امينه مقبله سلطان, "benign, trustworthy" and "the believer one"; 17 September 1911 – 21 May 1995) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Ömer Hilmi, son of Mehmed V.

## Early life

Emine Mukbile Sultan was born on 17 September 1911 in the Dolmabahçe Palace. Her father was Şehzade Ömer Hilmi, and her mother was Hatice Fidervs Gülnev Hanım. She was first child and only daughter of her parents. She had a brother, Şehzade Mahmud Namık, two years younger than her. She was the granddaughter of Sultan Mehmed V and Mihrengiz Kadın.
On 29 October 1923, Turkey was officially declared as a republic, and in 1924, the imperial family was exiled, after which her family settled firstly in Beirut, Lebanon, and then in Nice, France.

## Marriage

Mukbile was engaged to her second cousin Şehzade Ali Vasib, the son of Şehzade Ahmed Nihad, and grandson of Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin in 1928. The two married on 30 November 1931, in Ruhl Hotel in Nice, France. The couple later moved to Maadi, Cairo. Here she, and her husband had to make do with an unassuming apartment on Mosseri Avenue, right next to Maadi's Synagogue. In fact, their landlord was the house principal benefactor Meyr Biton, a close attendant to Haim Nahum Efendi, the Turkish-born Grand Rabbi of Egypt.
They then moved to Alexandria, Egypt, in 1935. where on 7 July 1940, she gave birth to the couple's only son, Şehzade Osman Selaheddin Vasib. Here he went to school.
After revocation of the law in 1952, the princesses were allowed to return to Turkey. However, Mukbile chose to stay in Alexandria with her husband and her son. She returned to Istanbul with her husband, and son in 1974, where they settled in Beşiktaş. The same year she visited Dolmabahçe Palace with her son. In 1977, Ali Vâsib became the Head of House of Osman after the death of Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz, and died in 1983.

## Death

Mukbile Sultan died on 21 May 1995 in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, at the age of eighty-three, and was buried in the mausoleum of her grandfather in Eyüp, Istanbul.

## Issue

By her marriage, Mukbile Sultan had an only son:
* Şehzade Osman Selaheddin Vasib Osmanoğlu (b. Alexandria or Cairo, 7 July 1940). Chartered Accountant. Married in London on 27 August 1966 and divorced on 6 May 1991 Athena Joy Christoforides Hanım (b. London, 9 March 1944), daughter of Richard C. Christoforides (Wandsworth, April/June 1915 - ?), Managing Director of R. Christoforides & Ass., engine and car manufacturers (brother of Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, wife of Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Baronet, and Sir William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook), and wife (Kensington, January/March 1940) Eugenie Joy Rogers-Tillstone (Norwich, January/March 1916 - ?), daughter of Hermann Francis Rogers-Tillstone (Tunbridge, January/March 1888 - ?) and wife (Marylebone, April/June 1913) Irene A. L. M. Mackay, paternal granddaughter of Benjamin Tillstone Rogers-Tillstone (St Helier, Jersey, 1850 - Brighton, 13 November 1931) and wife (Brighton, April/June 1880) Emma Frederica Hallett (Brighton, January/March 1860 - Brighton, 9 July 1930), and great-granddaughter of Benjamin Tillstone Rogers then Rogers-Tillstone (1825 - ?), Property owner, and wife Louise Caroline Wilhelmina ... and Frederick Francis Hallett (Brighton, 1831 - 1901, son of William Hallett, Mayor of Brighton 1855-1856, and wife Mary Ann Miles) and wife (Mutford, 10 June 1851) Charlotte Crickmore (1823 - ?, daughter of John Crickmore and wife ...). They have three sons and one daughter:
** Ayşe Gülnev Sultan Osmanoğlu (b. England, 17 January 1971). Authress of historical novels about the Ottoman dynasty, like The Gilted Cage on the Bosphorus. Married on 27 August 1994 Damat Nicholas Sutton and has three children:
*** Sultanzade Max Ali Sutton (b. London, 5 January 2000)
*** Sultanzade Cosmo Tarik Sutton (b. London, 10 September 2001)
*** Sultanzade Lysander Gengiz Sutton (b. London, 12 April 2003)
** Şehzade Orhan Murad Osmanoğlu (b. Henley-on-Thames, 26 December 1972). Married in Windsor on 18 February 2001 Patrícia Iotti then Emine Hanım (Cerquilho, São Paulo, 30 January 1977), daughter of João Iotti, Italian Brazilian, and wife Vera Braatz, German Brazilian. They have two sons:
*** Şehzade Turan Cem Osmanoğlu (b. High Wycombe, 7 January 2004)
*** Şehzade Tamer Nihad Osmanoğlu (b. High Wycombe, 15 April 2006)
** Şehzade Nihad Reşad Osmanoğlu (17 September 1978 - England, 19 December 1978)
** Şehzade Selim Süleyman Osmanoğlu (b. 15 December 1979). In Istanbul on 22 June 2003 he married Alev Öcal Hanım. They have a son:
*** Şehzade Batu Bayezid Osmanoğlu (b. 2008)
*** Esma Emira Sultan Osmanoğlu (b. 2015)

## Ancestry

Ancestors of Mukbile Sultan :