Şehzade Mahmud Namık Efendi ( ;23 December 1913 – 13 November 1963) was an Ottoman prince, the only son of Şehzade Ömer Hilmi, and his third consort Hatice Fidervs Gülnev Hanım. He was the grandson of Sultan Mehmed V Reşad and Mihrengiz Kadın. Mahmud Namık was an active member of the "Zohriya Set", a group of exiled members of the Ottoman dynasty who lived in the Cairo suburb of Maadi along with members of the Egyptian Royal family and their entourage. Mahmud Namık was implicated in the "Restoration Plot" to overthrow Gamal Abdel Nasser and replace him on the restored throne with Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim. His trial and subsequent imprisonment made headlines around the world. Early life and exile Şehzade Mahmud Namık was born on 23 December 1913 in Dolmabahçe Palace. His father was Şehzade Ömer Hilmi, son of Sultan Mehmed V and Mihrengiz Kadın and his mother was Hatice Fidervs Gülnev Hanım. He lived there until the death of his grandfather, Sultan Mehmed V, just before the end of World War I on 4 July 1918. He then moved with his family to Bağlarbaşı. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Namık at aged ten, and his family settled in Beirut, Liban, and later in Nice, France. In May 1933, they moved to Alexandria, Egypt where his father died in 1938. Personal life Namık's only wife was Şehrazad Hanım. She was the daughter of Ismail Ratib Bey, and his wife Princess Emine Bihruz, daughter of Prince Ibrahim Rashid Fazil Pasha of Egypt. She was born in 1922. They married in 1939. On 4 June 1941, she gave birth to Şehzade Ömer Abdülmecid in Alexandria. By the early 1940s, he kept an apartment with his wife in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo. They divorced in 1947. She died in 1993. Arrest, trial and imprisonment Namık was accused of involvement in a plot to bring down the military regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser in favour of the one time Regent Muhammad Abdel Moneim or his son. In 1957, there were reports that Namık and Neslişah Sultan met in Saint Moritz in the summer of 1956 to identify the person who would be placed on Egypt's throne. Years later Julian Amery, a former British Intelligence officer and a Conservative MP advocating continued British presence in the Middle East, confirmed in his writings that the prince, together with several