[2] Her father was Prince Osman Bey Emuhvari,[2] and her mother was Princess Hesna Hanım Çaabalurhva, an Abkhazian.

He took his wife and children to Istanbul, and entrusted them to the care of Hesna Hanım's paternal cousin, Davud Bey.

[11] She and her son accompanied him for some time, and returned to Istanbul in 1910,[8] and bought a mansion in Büyükdere Avenue, Şişli.

After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid also returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.

[14] On 30 May 1918, Peyveste met with the Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma in the harem of Yıldız Palace, when the latter visited Istanbul with her husband Emperor Charles I of Austria.

[17] She had sold her mansion in Şişli, and from the money she received, they lived a comfortable life in an apartment on Mourad Boulevard.