Gülüstü Hanım
Gülüstü Hanım (; ; born Princess Fatma Chachba; died 1865) was the nineteenth wife of Sultan Abdulmejid I, and the mother of Sultan Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Life. Born as Fatma Chachba, Gülüstü Hanım was a member of the Abkhazian princely family, Shervashidze. Her father was Prince Tahir Bey Chachba. She was the granddaughter of Kelesh Ahmed-Bey Shervashidze, head of state of the Principality of Abkhazia. Gülüstü married Abdulmejid in 1855, and was given the title of "Fourth Ikbal". On 30 July 1856, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Mediha Sultan . Five years later on 14 January 1861, she gave birth to her second child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Vahideddin (future Mehmed VI). Death. After Abdulmejid's death in 1861, Gülüstü Hanım moved to a waterfront palace located at Eyüp, where she died in 1865, in an outbreak of cholera. She was buried in her own mausoleum located in Fatih Mosque, Fatih, Constantinople, today in Istanbul. After her death, her daughter Mediha Sultan was entrusted in the care of Verdicenan Kadın, and her son Mehmed was entrusted in the care of Şayeste Hanım.