Gevheri Sultan was born on 2 December 1904 in her father's villa in Küçük Çamlıca, Üsküdar.

Her father was Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin, son of Abdulaziz and Gevheri Kadın, and her mother was Nervaliter Hanım.

Abdulmejid II, her uncle who was also living in Nice, brought her to his home when he heard of her financial difficulties with the intention of search her a husband.

She spent her last years with her cousin Mihrişah Sultan, daughter of her uncle crown prince Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, in a spacious apartment in Taksim Square.

[9] She died on 10 December 1980 at the age of seventy-six, and was buried in the mausoleum of her great-grandfather Sultan Mahmud II, Divanyolu, Istanbul.