Rukiye Sabiha Sultan was an Ottoman princess, the youngest daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI and his first wife Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi, the daughter of Prince Hassan Marshania and his wife Princess Fatma Horecan Aredba.
Background
She was the wife of Şehzade Ömer Faruk Efendi, son of Abdülmecid II the last caliph of the Muslim world and his wife Şehsuvar Kadınefendi, and the mother of Fatma Neslişah Sultan, Zehra Hanzade Sultan and Necla Hibetullah Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The youngest daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI and his first wife Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi, the daughter of Prince Hassan Marshania and his wife Princess Fatma Horecan Aredba.
Career
She was the half sister of Mehmed Ertuğrul Efendi, whose mother was Şadiye Müveddet Kadınefendi, third wife of her father. Prince Ömer Faruk Efendi married her on 29 April 1920 in the Yıldız Palace. Her husband, Ömer Faruk Efendi divorced her in January 1948, while they were resident at Cairo and she returned to her homeland, where she received her citizenship and surname Osmanoğlu (literally: son, a descendant of the Ottomans).