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040			_aPMNP _beng _cKutubkhanah Diraja
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245			_aNeslishah, The last Otttoman Princess : _bA Life of Palaces and Exile from Istanbul to Cairo / _cby Murat Bardakci
246			_aNeslisah : Cumhuriyet Devrinde Bir Osmanli Prensesi _bby Everest Yayinlari
250			_a2019 _bpaperback ed.
260			_aCairo, Egypt _aNew York _bThe American University in Cairo Press _c2019
300			_axxi., 312p., _bill.,
520			_a"Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she was an imperial princess and the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. But she was the last member of the imperial family to be accorded such honors: in 1922 Vahiddedin was deposed and exiled, replaced as caliph--but not as sultan--by his brother (and Neslishah's other grandfather) Abdulmecid; in 1924 Abdulmecid was also removed from office, and the entire imperial family, including three-year-old Neslishah, were sent into exile. Sixteen years later on her marriage to Prince Abdel Moneim, the son of the last khedive of Egypt, she became a princess of the Egyptian royal family. And when in 1952 her husband was appointed regent for Egypt's infant king, she took her place at the peak of Egyptian society as the country's first lady, until the abolition of the monarchy the following year. Exile followed once more, this time from Egypt, after the royal couple faced charges of treason. Eventually Neslishah was allowed to return to the city of her birth, where she died at the age of 91 in 2012. Based on original documents and extensive personal interviews, this account of one woman's extraordinary life is also the story of the end of two powerful dynasties thirty years apart."
650		0	_986 _aHistory _xbibliography
650		0	_9336 _aBiography _xOsmanli princess
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999			_c1947 _d1947