Her father was Sultan Abdulmejid I, and her mother was Verdicenan Kadın,[1] the daughter of Prince Kaytuk Giorgi Achba and Princess Yelizaveta Hanım.
[3] In March 1854, a messenger from Istanbul announced the betrothal of Münire Sultan to Prince Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha, son of Abbas I of Egypt and his wife Mahivech Hanim.
[6] Her mother, Verdicenan Kadın gave some of these perfumes and morsels of food to other princesses, and also distributed them equally to the people in her entourage.
The cost of the ceremony was bitterly criticized, because the Ottoman army had just suffered heavy defeats in Montenegro and Crete was in revolt.
[12] Münire was widowed at Prince Ibrahim İlhamy's death in 1860 when his boat capsized while crossing the Bosphorus, near Bebek Palace.