[3] Her father was Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin, son of Murad V and Reftarıdil Kadın and her mother was Naziknaz Hanım.

[4] Behiye married Hafız Hakkı Pasha (1878-1915),[5] a general in the imperial Ottoman army, in a double wedding with her sister Rukiye Sultan.

Sharing the same boisterous gardener 'Am Ibrahim,' the Raafats would send the princess home-baked kahk during Eid al-Fitr.

A few years later, by mere coincidence Dr. Wahid Raafat found himself wrongly implicated in an alleged royalist plot concocted by members of the princess's extended family.

[10] She died on 5 March 1948[11] in her home in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt,[1][12] and was buried in the mausoleum of Abdul Halim Pasha.