Şehsuvar Hanım

Şehsuvar Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: شهسوار خانم; 2 May 1881 – 1945; meaning "intrepid heroine"[1]), called also Şehsuvar Kadın, was the first consort of Abdulmejid II, the last Caliph of the Ottoman Caliphate.

He would be at the piano, Şehsuvar and Mehisti Hanım would play the violin, and Hayrünisa Hanim the cello.

[10] At the exile of the imperial family, in March 1924, she followed her husband, firstly to Switzerland and then to France where they settled in Nice.

[14] However, according to an interview with Fatma Neslişah Osmanoğlu on 26 May 2002, she said that the figure does not resemble her paternal grandmother Sehsuvar Hanım.

[14] She died in 1945,[5] having outlived her husband by nearly one year, and was buried in the Muslim Bobigny cemetery in Paris.

Şehsuvar (far right) at her son's wedding, 29 April 1920. The future Princess of Berar, Dürrüşehvar Sultan stands second from the left.
A painting by Abdulmejid depicting Şehsuvar playing violin, lady Ophelia playing piano, and his son Ömer Faruk plays cello as other two women, listen with rapt attention at his summer palace in Bağlarbaşı.