ottomanladies: VALIDE SULTANS: Nakşidil was the eighth Imperial Consort (sekizinci kadın) of Abd&uum
ottomanladies: VALIDE SULTANS: Nakşidil was the eighth Imperial Consort (sekizinci kadın) of Abdülhamid I and the mother of Mahmud II. For centuries, she was thought to be Aimée du Buc de Rivéry, a French heiress and a distant cousin of Empress Joséphine, who went missing at sea. It seems that this legend had been carefully crafted to create a connection to another royal house; sultan Abdulaziz, fifty years later, would say that his and Napoleon III’s grandmothers were related. In reality, she was a Georgian slave who was born around 1766 and who gave birth to the future Mahmud II in 1785. When Abdülhamid I died in 1789, she was sent to the Old Palace, where she lived until her son’s accession on 29 July 1808. Her entrance ceremony to Topkapi Palace was the last Procession of the Valide Sultan to be performed in the Ottoman Empire.In the first years of his reign, Mahmud II would consult his mother frequently and, upon her recommendation, the Dynasty left Topkapi Palace for Beşiktaş Palace.Nakşidil was plagued by a long illness, maybe tuberculosis, in the last years of her life and died on 22 August 1817. // fahriye evcen as nakşidil valide sultan(requested by anon) -- source link