Şehzade Mahmud Şevket
Born	(1903-07-30)30 July 1903 Suadiye Villa,Constantinople,Ottoman Empire (nowIstanbul,Turkey)
Died	31 January 1973(1973-01-31) (aged 69) Bagnols-sur-Cèze,France
Burial	Bagnols-sur-Cèze,France
Spouse	Adile Hanımsultan ​ ​ (m. 1922; div. 1928)​
Issue	Hamide Nermin Nezahet Sultan
Names Turkish:Şehzade Mahmud Şevket Ottoman Turkish:شهزاده محمود شوکت
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin
Mother	Nervaliter Hanım
Religion	Sunni Islam
Military career
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire
Branch	Ottoman Navy
Service years	1918–1922 (active service)
Rank	See list

Şehzade Mahmud Şevket Efendi (Ottoman Turkish:شهزادہ محمود شوکت; alsoMahmud Şevket Osmanoğlu; 30 July 1903 – 31 January 1973) was an Ottoman prince, the son ofŞehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin, and the grandson of SultanAbdulaziz.

Şehzade Mahmud Şevket was born on 30 July 1903^[1] in his father's villa in Suadiye.^[2] His father wasŞehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin, son of SultanAbdulaziz andGevheri Kadın, and his mother was Nervaliter Hanım.^[3] He had two full siblings,Şehzade Ahmed Tevhid andGevheri Sultan, Twins one year younger than him, and an older half-brother,Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz.^[4]

Şevket began his education in the princes school located in theIhlamur Pavilion. On 5 June 1918, he was enrolled in theImperial Naval School located onHeybeliada Island.^[1] On 9 July 1918, he was given the rank of junior officer in the Ottoman navy. However, a few months later, his education naval school ended and he was sent back to Ihlamur Pavilion for military training. However, after theArmistice of Mudros in October 1918, his education in the Ihlamur Pavilion also ended. He, however, graduated from the naval school in July 1922. On 30 July, he was appointed as honorary aide-de-camp to SultanMehmed VI.^[5]

Şevket's only wife wasAdile Hanımsultan. Her father was Kemaleddin Pasha, and her mother wasNaime Sultan, daughter of SultanAbdul Hamid II andBidar Kadın. She was born on 12 November 1900 in the Ortaköy Palace.^[6] They married on 4 May 1922 in the Üsküdar Palace.^[7] On 27 January 1923, she gave birth toHamide Nermin Nezahet Sultan in the Üsküdar Palace.^[7] They divorced on 28 March 1928 in Cairo.^[7] She then married Orhan el-Bekrî and had one son and two daughters.^[8] She died in February 1979.^[8]

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Şevket and his wife settled inCairo,Egypt.^[9] His daughter on the other hand went to France to her maternal grandmother, becauseNaime Sultan argued that the couple were too young and inexperienced to care for the daughter.^[10] Nermin suffered from bone tuberculosis at a young age and was disabled. She was sent to a concentration camp inAlbania by the Nazis duringWorld War II. A British intelligence officer in Egypt, historianLord Patrick Kinross, later had Nermin brought to Cairo by a military transport aircraft. They began to live in theZamalek district.Farouk of Egypt gave them a salary from Ottoman foundations.^[11]

In Cairo, Şevket's house was the meeting place of the Turks in Egypt. He was closely connected with Turkish students studying atAl-Azhar University. Mustafa Sabri Efendi, the second last shaykh al-Islām living in exile, would also stay in Şevket's house. He was old and sick. He and his daughter were busy with attending to Sabri Efendi's needs. Popular personalities such as Syrian PresidentShukri al-Quwatli, intellectuals and businesspeople would come at his house. He had soil brought from Turkey that he wanted put in his grave when he died.^[11]

Şevket was also offered the throne of Palestine. After theEgyptian revolution of 1952, PresidentGamal Abdel Nasser deported him. He and his daughter then went to France with the help of French ambassador. After the age of sixty, he started working as a librarian. When the costs of treatment and medicine increased, they sold the painting, which was a gift from the French artistHenri Matisse, who was a friend of Şevket, for TL 4,000 and lived off this money.^[11]

Şevket died on 31 January 1973, at the age of sixty nine, in a small French town calledBagnols-sur-Cèze, and was buried there. A handful of earth from Istanbul was placed in his tomb, which Şevket had brought with him after his exile.^[9] His daughter was given a pension by the French government. She died in the forlorns ward of a hospital in 1998.^[11]

Styles of Şehzade Mahmud Şevket
Reference style	His Imperial Highness
Spoken style	Your Imperial Highness

• 9 July 1918: Junior Officer, Ottoman Navy

• 30 July 1922: Aide-de-Camp to the Sultan

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