Osmanoğlu, who was the last royal born during the , died at age 91, reportedly from a heart attack, Monday and was buried in , . Neslişah was both the granddaughter of , who was the last Ottoman Emperor, and , who was the last Ottoman . Neslişah was also the wife of Egyptian , who was the head of  ’s regency for a short while before the revolution in which and removed the monarchy from power. This was the second monarchy removed by revolution and sent into exile that Neslişah had personally experienced. As an exile in  , she longed to be repatriated to her homeland and the city of Istanbul where she is now buried. She told a biographer, Murat Bardakçı, "My mother had friends who would go to Istanbul. I would ask them to bring me back a bit of soil from Istanbul, but none did." The Turkish government from 1952 allowed female royals to return and she returned there with her husband in 1957. In 2009, she became the senior member of Turkey’s former royal family after the death of a male relative.
Osmanoğlu, who was the last royal born during the , died at age 91, reportedly from a heart attack, Monday and was buried in Istanbul, Turkey . Neslişah was both the granddaughter of , who was the last Ottoman Emperor, and , who was the last Ottoman . Neslişah was also the wife of Egyptian , who was the head of Egypt ’s regency for a short while before the revolution in which and removed the monarchy from power. This was the second monarchy removed by revolution and sent into exile that Neslişah had personally experienced. As an exile in France , she longed to be repatriated to her homeland and the city of Istanbul where she is now buried. She told a biographer, Murat Bardakçı, "My mother had friends who would go to Istanbul. I would ask them to bring me back a bit of soil from Istanbul, but none did." The Turkish government from 1952 allowed female royals to return and she returned there with her husband in 1957. In 2009, she became the senior member of Turkey’s former royal family after the death of a male relative.
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