ottomanladies:Perhaps Abdülhamid II’s most famous consort, Bidar Kadınefendi was born on 5 May 1855
ottomanladies:Perhaps Abdülhamid II’s most famous consort, Bidar Kadınefendi was born on 5 May 1855 to Kabardian Prince Ibrahim Talustan Bey and Georgian Princess Şahika İffet Lortkipanidze in Kobuleti. She had two younger brothers, Çerkeş Hüseyin Paşa and Çerkeş Mehmed Ziya Paşa, who were in service to the sultan. Bidar was extremely beautiful: she was tall, slender, with green eyes and brown eyes. With her looks and her daring personality, she soon attracted the attention of Prince Abdülhamid, who married her on 2 September 1875. A year after the wedding, on 4 September 1876, she gave birth to Naime Sultan, whom Abdülhamid called “my accession daughter”, because she was born only five days after he came to the throne. On 16 January 1878, she gave birth to her other child, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir. During the reign of her husband she was Third Imperial Consort from 1877 and 1893 and Second Imperial Consort from 1893 to 1909.Bidar Kadın was so famously beautiful that the German Empress Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein wanted to meet her and when she visited the harem, she was so dazzled both by her beauty and by her extravagant dress that Bidar became a popular topic in Europe. When Zita of Bourbon-Parma visited Istanbul in 1918 she explicitly asked to see Bidar.After the deposition of Abdülhamid II on 27 April 1909, Bidar was one of the consorts who followed him to Thessalonika, where they stayed until the Greeks took it in 1912. Back in Istanbul, she settled down in a mansion in Erenköy, in which she died on 13 January 1918.She was buried in the tomb of Şehzade Kemaleddin Efendi in the Yahya Efendi cemetery. // Buse Varol as Bidarsources: Douglas Scott Brookes - The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher; Harun Açba - Kadin Efendiler -- source link
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