She was the daughter of Sultan Mahmud II and sister of the Sultans Abdülmecid I and Abdülaziz. She was born as daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (1785–1839) and his wife Zernigar Kadın Efendi in 1826 in Constantinople (modern Istanbul). Adile Sultan lost her mother at a very young age, and was raised by Haciye Pertev Piyale Nevfidan Kadın Efendi, the chief lady in the palace.
Just as her father, she was much interested in the arts
She received a high standard of education in the palace. Adile Sultan had a summerhouse in Validebağ and a famed palace in Kandilli, the Adile Sultan Palace, both on the Asian part of Istanbul. She donated the Adile Sultan Palace to the state on the condition that it be converted into the first secondary high school for girls in the Ottoman Empire.
Her wish was fulfilled only in 1916 (due to wars), when the Young Turk activist, statesman, and educator Ahmed Rıza opened the Adile Sultan İnas Mekteb-i Sultanisi ("Adile Sultan Imperial Girls School"), today known as Kandilli Anatolian High School for Girls, although it became not the first, but the second secondary school for girls in the empire.
The high school moved to a new building in 1969, and the Adile Sultan Palace burned down in 1986 due to an electrical short-circuit. lieutenant was reopened in 2006 as the Sakıp Sabancı Kandilli Education and Culture Center.
Adile Sultan died in 1899 at the Coastal Palace. Even though she was not much more successful than Leyla Hanım and Fıtnat Hanım, two renowned female poets of her era, Adile Sultan"s literary works shed light on the incidents in the palace and the administration of the Ottoman Empire.
She also helped the Diwan of Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566) to be printed.
Her poetry, Adile Sultan"s Divan, was published in 1996.
