Nevzad Hanım

Nevzad Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: نمت نوزاد خانم; "young heroine"; born Nimet Bargu and previously Nevzad Kalfa, after 1928 Nimet Seferoğlu; 2 March 1902 – 23 June 1992) was the fifth and last consort of Sultan Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire.

[2] Born as Nimet Bargu, she was the daughter of Şaban Efendi, a palace gardener,[3] and his wife Hatice Hanım.

[4] Hüseyin Bey, who was the husband of her paternal aunt, presented Nimet and her sister Nesrin in the imperial harem, where according to the custom of the Ottoman court her name was changed to Nevzad.

[6] She was then sent to the harem of Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin,[5] where she served as Kalfa in the entourage of Safiye Ünüvar's student princesses and had taken the same classes and training as they.

Furthermore, Mehmed was so smitten by his new young consort as to be causing gossip in the capital due to his refusal to leave the harem and so part from her company.

[8] When Mehmed was deposed in 1922, she and other members of his family were imprisoned in the Feriye Palace, but managed to sneak out disguised as Kalfa.

In 1974, a journalist asked her what life had been like with Sultan Mehmed VI Vahideddin, and she replied: “I buried that time in the depths of my heart”.