They used to spend their winters in the crown princes apartments located in the Dolmabahçe Palace and the Nisbetiye Mansion.

[5] Selaheddin's early education took place in the Prince's School, Dolmabahçe Palace, where his tutor was Süleyman Agha.

After reigning for three months, he was deposed on 30 August 1876,[8] due to mental instability and was imprisoned in the Çırağan Palace.

[13] During the incident Ali Suavi, the radical political opponent of Abdul Hamid's authoritarian regime stormed the palace with a band of armed refugees from the recent Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).

[13] Selahaddin evaded the guards, and followed his loyal servant, Tirendaz Kalfa, to the battleship Mesudiye that was anchored offshore the palace to take him and Murad to announce his accession.

[17] Ali Suavi's men were unable to overcome the fierce resistance of the Beşiktaş police prefect, Hacı Hasan Pasha.

[21] Rifat Pasha, who had been appointed to treat the people of Murad's entourage, proposed Selaheddin to teach him a bit about medicine.

Rifat Pasha then began to come to the palace frequently, first treating whoever might really be sick before shutting himself up in a room with Selaheddin and working with him.

Rifat Pasha would dictate the important things to Selaheddin, who wrote them down and then sat and memorized them at night.

Selaheddin became his companion in grief, and the two of them passed long hours together reminiscing about bygone days as well as speculating on the future.

For some time father and son took an interest in the Mesnevi, spending hours reciting verses from that work and taking great pleasure in doing so.

[23] During this time Selaheddin also wrote a diary which give an account of the daily life of the imprisoned members of his father's immediate family and their retinue.

In 1874, she came to Istanbul with her own mistress, and was sold with her own consent when she arrived at the palace of Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha, husband of Princess Seniha Sultan.

[52] After Murad's death in 1904, which Salaheddin had tried to help with his medical knowledge, Selaheddin's ordeal in the Çırağan Palace came to an end.

[3] A prince of high intelligence,[54] Selaheddin, however, having spent many years in confinement, became spiritually and physically ruined.

He had aged before time, and the allowance provided to him by the government after the second constitution in 1908, didn't fulfilled his financial crisis.

[55] He died on 29 April 1915 at the age of fifty three, having outlived his father by a mere eleven years and leaving two sons and four daughters.

He was buried in the mausoleum of Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin, Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul.