[2] Her father was Şehzade Ömer Faruk, the only son of Caliph Abdulmejid II and Şehsuvar Hanım.

The family relocated to Egypt[1] in 1938 due to the outbreak of the Second World War, where she received a proposal from Egyptian prince Hassan Toussoun, and despite protests, she was engaged to him.

[6] In 1940, Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim, son of Egypt's last Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, proposed to Neslişah.

[3] When the Egyptian Free Officers Movement deposed King Farouk in the July 1952 Revolution, they chose Prince Abdel Moneim to serve as chairman of the three-member Regency Body established to assume the powers of Farouk's newly enthroned infant son Fuad II.

The Regency Body was dissolved on 7 September 1952, and Abdel Moneim was appointed as sole Prince regent.

[11] In the absence of a Queen consort, Neslişah de facto served as such by virtue of her position as the wife of the Prince regent.

Like the royal consorts who preceded her, she attended sporting events such as polo matches and the international tennis tournament final.

[12] Around 1943, Neslişah's father, Ömer Faruk, developed an increased interest in his cousin Mihrişah Sultan, the daughter of Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin.

Murat Bardakçı opines that he had already fallen in love with Mihrişah and the issue of the council[clarification needed] was merely an excuse.

[18] Prince Abdel Moneim died in 1979 in Istanbul, where Princess Neslişah continued to live with her unmarried daughter Ikbal.