Background
Kamures Kadınefendi was born in 1885 to an Ubykh Bey.
Kamures Kadınefendi was born in 1885 to an Ubykh Bey.
At a very young age she was given in service to the palace. A year after the marriage she gave birth to, Sehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin Efendi and then in 1876 to Şehzade Mehmed Necmeddin Efendi. In 1918 she accepted the presence of king Boris III of Bulgaria when he came to Istanbul and Empress Austria Zita in the harem.
She was the grand mother of Safiye Ünüvar"s prospective pupils, who was a teacher in the Palace school Safiye Ünüvar penned in her memoir about Kamures:
..One must not pay a first call in the evening, and so it was on Friday afternoon that I put on my dress with long flounces.
Having obtained permission beforehand to pay a call, I passed in company with my kalfa through the lovely gardens of the palace, laid out as they were with orderly rows of flowers, and entered the apartments of the Baș Kadın Efendi, as the monarch"s highestranking consort is called. Kamures Kadın Efendi was the mother of Sultan"s eldest son Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin Efendi.
She was the president of Hilal-i Ahmer society for ladies for sometime. 27 April 1909 – 3 July 1918:Devletlu İsmetlu Kamures Baș Kadınefendi Hazretleri (Her Highness The Chief Imperial Lady Consort Kamures).
