Princess Hatice

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Princess Hatice or Hatice Sultana was an Ottoman Princess (18th century), daughter of Ahmed III and consort to Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha.

Sultana Hatice was married very young but, as was tradition with Ottoman Princesses, did not live with her husband before several years after the marriage; generally, Ottman Princesses could marry as children, but their spouses was not permitted to see them alone until they where at least thirteen years old.

She was described as having had a large political influence on both her father, who left the ruling to her husband, and on her husband, the Grand Vizier. Some sources regard her as the real ruler of the later Tulip Era (1703-1730), at least during the 1720s. she was to have asssited the Marquis de Villeneuve in a Pro-French politic during the war between France and Russia. Some historians see her as the last de facto female ruler of the Ottoman Empire.

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• Alev Lytle Croutier, "Harem".