Mihrimah Sultan (; "sun and moon" or "light of the moon"; after marriage princess Mihrimah Sultan Nayef; 14 April 1923 – 30 March 2000) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin, son of Mehmed V. She was a Jordanian princess as wife of Prince Nayef bin Abdullah, the son of Abdullah I of Jordan, emir of Emirate of Transjordan. Early life Mihrimah Sultan was born on 14 April 1923, in her father's villa located at Haydarpasha. Her father was Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin, son of Sultan Mehmed VI and Kamures Kadın and her mother was Neşemend Hanım. She was the eight child and youngest daughter of her father and the only child of her mother. She was the first princess to be born after the abolition of the empire. She had green eyes. She lived on the second floor with her mother at her father's villa, which was occupied by her mother after her father divorced his wife Melekseryan Hanım. On 29 October 1923, Turkey was officially declared republic and on 3 March 1924, the Caliphate was abolished and the imperial family was sent to exile. The princess settled at Alexandria, Egypt with her family. She lost her mother when was only twelve in 1934, and her father in 1938, when she was fifteen. She was educated in Paris and in Cairo, and was adorned with charm, nobility, and a mind of her own. Marriage In 1940, during the ongoing World War II, Mihrimah married Prince Nayef bin Abdullah of Jordan, youngest son of King Abdullah I of Jordan. The marriage contract was signed on 30 September 1940 and the wedding was held on 7 October 1940 in the villa of Mihrimah's elder half-sister Lütfiye Sultan, which was a wartime scene during the wedding. The wedding was a major national event in Jordan, lasting seven days and seven nights. The couple moved to Amman, Jordan after the wedding. Her title in Jordan was "Princess Mihrimah Naif" (). On 10 August 1941, she gave birth to the couple's first child Prince Ali bin Nayef, he was followed by another son Prince Abubakr Asem bin Nayef, born on 27 April 1948. She was a great deal more independent and free-thinking than most other women of her standing, and unlike other women of the court, who hid their faces behind black veils, she used only a light transparent veil to cover