Background
Şayeste Hanımefendi was born in 1838 to Prince Tataş Bey Inalipa, an Abkhazian and his wife Sarey Hanım.
Şayeste Hanımefendi was born in 1838 to Prince Tataş Bey Inalipa, an Abkhazian and his wife Sarey Hanım.
A year after the marriage she gave birth to, Şehzade Abdullah Efendi who died at the age of nine. In 1856 she gave birth to, Naile Sultan. After the death of Gülüstü Kadınefendi she was given the motherless infant Şehzade Mehmed Vahideddin to raise.
She also brought her relatives to the court.
Among the three longest living consorts of Abdülmecid I, she died on 11 February 1912 in the Çengelköy Palace, Istanbul and was buried in the royal mausoleum of Yahya Efendi in Istanbul. 1852 - 2 June 1861: Devletlu Dördüncü Ikbal Şayeste Hanımefendi Hazretleri (Her Highness The Fourth Honoured Lady Consort Şayeste).