Behiye Sultan (; 29 September 1881 â 5 March 1948) was the eldest survived daughter of à Âehzade Mehmed Selaheddin (1861âÂÂ1915), who was the son of Ottoman Sultan Murad V (reigned 1876). Her mother was Naziknaz Hanñm.
Behiye Sultan was born on was born on 29 September 1881 in the ÃÂñraÃÂan Palace. Her father was à Âehzade Mehmed Selaheddin, son of Murad V and Reftarñdil Kadñn and her mother was Naziknaz Hanñm. She had a brother, à Âehzade Ahmed Nihad, two years younger than her, and a younger sister, Behice Sultan, stillbirth.
Behiye married Hafñz Hakkñ Pasha (1878-1915), a general in the imperial Ottoman army, in a double wedding with her sister Rukiye Sultan. The marriage contract was concluded at the Ortaköy Palace on 17 February 1910. The wedding took place on 12 January 1911 at the Vasñf Pasha Palace, and the couple was given one of the palaces of Ortaköy as their residence. She remained childless. She did not remarry after her husband's death in 1915.
At the exile of imperial family in March 1924, she settled in Cairo. She lived in a tiny villa on Road 13. Her neighbors, the Wahid Raafat family, never saw anyone visit her. No one noticed when she moved out. All of a sudden she was replaced in the small house by astronomer Professor Khayri, director of the Helwan observatory. Sharing the same boisterous gardener 'Am Ibrahim,' the Raafats would send the princess home-baked kahk during Eid al-Fitr. A few years later, by mere coincidence Dr. Wahid Raafat found himself wrongly implicated in an alleged royalist plot concocted by members of the princess's extended family. He was subsequently imprisoned, without trial, for several weeks.
She died on 5 March 1948 in her home in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt, and was buried in the mausoleum of Abdul Halim Pasha.
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