She was a lady-in-waiting to Nazikeda Kadın, wife of Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
She is known for writing memoirs, which give details of the exile, and personality of Sultan Mehmed at San Remo.
[2] She had an elder sister Amine Seten who was renamed Nazikeda, and married to Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin,[3][4] and a younger sister, Pakize Hanım,[5] married to Esad Bey, a Hungarian.
She was then sent to Cemile Sultan's palace in Kandilli, where her name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Rumeysa Hayrıdil Hanim.
[6] After her cousin Emine who had been renamed Nazikeda, married Şehzade Vahideddin (future Sultan Mehmed VI) in 1885, she became senior lady-in-waiting to her.