Nükhetsezâ Hanım
Consort of Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid I
Hatice Nükhetseza Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: نكهت سزا خانم; "rich perfume"; 2 January 1827 – 15 May 1850) was a consort of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire.
Life
Nükhetsezâ Hanım was born on 2 January 1827. She was the daughter of the Abkhazian nobleman Baras Hatuğ Bey and his wife, the Georgian Ferhune Hanim, and her real name was Hatice.
She grew up at court under the tutelage of Bezmiâlem Sultan, mother of Abdülmecid I, where she took the name of Nükhetseza. She was an excellent singer and a good painter and pianist.
She married Abdulmejid on 21 October 1841, who had fallen in love with her after hearing her sing, and was given the title of "Second Ikbal". In 1842 she give birth to her first child, a daughter, Aliye Sultan, who died the same year. In 1845, she was given the title of "BaşIkbal" (First Ikbal). A year after the marriage, on 5 June 1846, she gave birth to her second child, a son, Şehzade Ahmed, in the Old Çırağan Palace. The prince died the next day on 6 June 1846.
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