[6] In 1845, her brother Sultan Abdulmejid arranged her marriage to Damat Mehmet Ali Pasha, who had been serving as an advisor in the imperial arsenal.

She held meetings of sheikhs and dervishes in the Neşetabad Palace, which also served as a sort of application bureau for poor people who would make their needs known to the princess.

She donated the Adile Sultan Palace to the state on the condition that it be converted into the first secondary high school for girls in the Ottoman Empire.

The high school moved to a new building in 1969, and the Adile Sultan Palace burned down in 1986 due to an electrical short-circuit.

[17] She followed the divan tradition, writing nazires to Fuzuli, Muhibbî, and Şeyh Gâlib, but she is not outstanding in either feeling or technique.

Her life lasted long enough for her to have become a modern poet, but she was faithful to the classic tradition which was still strong, particularly in the palace.

[20] Adile Sultan died on 12 February 1899 at the age of seventy-three, the last surviving child of Mahmud.

[21][22] Adile Sultan was a poet and a scholarly, cultivated, and pious woman renowned for her benevolence, good works, and charity.

[24] She always dressed in a completely Turkish fashion gown of heavy fabrics with four flounces, shoes of chamois leather, shawl tied as a sash around her waist, the so-called salta wide-sleeved jacket over this ensemble, on her head something like a fez wrapped in a silk headkerchief pinked along the edges, and onto which she had fastened exquisite brooches of emeralds and rubies in the shape of roses, a larger one in the center flanked by two smaller ones.