Fatma Sultan was born on 19 June 1879, during the third year of her family's confinement in Çırağan Palace.
She spent an important part of her time in playing the piano and reading books in French.
[4][6] Unlike her half-sisters, she chose not to leave the palace to marry before her father's death, because Abdul Hamid II's condition was to never see her family again.
In 1908, her mother Resan Hanim left the Çırağan Palace, where she had stayed to keep company to Şayan Kadın, and came to live with her.
[9][4][3][5] Fatma Sultan died at the age of fifty three on 23 November 1932[10] in Sofia, Bulgaria, and was buried there.