Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Abdülkadir)

Safvet Neslişah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: نسل شاہ سلطان, "pure" and "born from the Şah"; 25 December 1925 – 30 May 2014), also known as Küçük Neslişah Sultan, was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Neslişah Sultan was born on 25 December 1925 in Budapest, Hungary, three years after the dissolution of Ottoman Empire. Having been born after the exile of the dynasty, she never carried the title of sultana by full right. Her father was Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, son of Abdul Hamid II and Bidar Kadın. Her mother was Fatma Meziyet Hanım, daughter of Mecid Bey, colonel of Ottoman Empire. She was the seventh and last child and second daughter of her father, and the second child of her mother, she had a sister Bidar Sultan, one year elder than her. In 1940, her family moved to Sofia, Bulgaria due to ongoing World War II, Neslişah lived in Nice and in Paris next her aunt Ayşe Sultan. Neslişah Sultan moved to Cairo, where she married Avni Reda Bey in 1953. The couple's first child, a son, Sultanzade Salih Bey Reda was born in 1954, followed by a second son Sultanzade Ömer Bey Reda born in 1957. The two later moved to Istanbul, where they divorced in 1969. She then married Mehmed Şefik Ziya (born 1894), an American citizen of Turkish Cypriot ethnicity, and widower of Şükriye Sultan, daughter of crown prince Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, She was widowed at his death in 1980. On 2 April 2000, she attended the funeral of Mihrimah Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin. On 2 April 2012, she and her sons attended the funeral of Neslişah Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk and Sabiha Sultan. Neslişah Sultan died on 30 May 2014, at the age of eighty-eight at Marmara Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul. She was the last surviving child of Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, and the last surviving grandchild of Abdul Hamid. Her funeral was attended by her relatives and members of Ottoman dynasty. She was buried in Karacaahmet Cemetery, alongside her mother Fatma Meziyet Hanım.