Ömer Abdülmecid Osmanoğlu

Ömer Abdülmecid Osmanoğlu
Prince Şehzade Ömer Abdülmecid Efendi
Born 4 June 1941
Alexandria , Egypt
Issue Prince Mahmud Namık Osmanoğlu Efendi
House Imperial House of Osman
Father Prince Mahmud Namık
Mother Şaharazade Hanımefendi
Religion Islam

Ömer Abdülmecid Osmanoğlu[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Prince Ömer was born in Alexandria, on the 4th of June, 1941. He is also known by the Ottoman imperial name as Prince Şehzade Ömer Abdülmecid Efendi. Prince Ömer is the only child of Prince Mahmud Namik Efendi, and his wife Şaharazade Hanımefendi. Şaharazade was born in Alexandria in 1922 and died 1993. She was the only daughter of Ismail Ratib Bey, by his wife Princess Emine Bihruz the younger daughter of Prince Ibrahim Raşid Fazıl Paşa, of Egypt and great-grandson of Sultan Mehmed V Reşad Han Gazi, 35th Sovereign of the House of Osman. Prince Ömer attended The Dragon School in Oxfordshire and Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, and studied Business Administration at the University of London.

Children

Prince Ömer has one son with Beulah Hanımefendi (b. 8 April 1943), née Banbury. Prince (Şehzade) Mahmud Namık Osmanoğlu was born in London,on 27 April 1975. He has two grandsons, Prince (Şehzade) Ziyaeddin Reşad Efendi, born in London on June 6, 2012, and Prince (Şehzade) Cem Ömer Efendi, born in London on August 5, 2015.

Life

Prince Prince Mahmud Namık with his fiancée Shehrazade Ratib
Prince Ömer's parents, Prince Mahmud Namık with his then fiance Shehrazade

Prince (Şehzade) Ömer Abdülmecid Efendi had a career as an oil trader in the City of London, is an accomplished chess player and is now retired and lives in Oxfordshire, England.

Family tree

Showing the line of descent from the founder of the Ottoman dynasty to present day through Sultan Mehmed V Reşad's youngest son Prince Ömer Hilmi Efendi

References

  1. ↑ Almanach de Gotha (184th ed.). Almanach de Gotha. 2000. pp. 365, 912–915.
  2. ↑ "Hayatta Olan Şehzadeler". Foundation of the Ottoman Dynasty. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
  3. ↑ Burke's Royal Families of the World (2 ed.). Burke's Peerage. 1980. p. 247.
  4. ↑ "Current Living Şehzades". Official Ottoman Family Website. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
  5. ↑ İbrahim Pazan (15 September 2009). "Osmanoğullarının yeni reisi Osman Bayezid Efendi". Netgazete. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  6. ↑ "Osmanlı Hanedanı vakıf çatısı altında toplanıyor". Sabah. 13 September 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  7. ↑ Line of succession to the Ottoman throne

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