Nazikeda Kadın (wife of Mehmed VI)

Emine Nazikeda Kadın (Turkish pronunciation: [nazik̟ʰeda kʰadɯn], Ottoman Turkish: نازك ادا قادین; meaning 'one of delicate manners'; born Princess Emine Marshania; 9 October 1866 – 4 April 1941), also nicknamed the Last Empress, was the first wife and chief consort of the last sultan, Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire.

Nazikeda was born Emine Marshania in Sukhumi to a family of Abkhazian principality. She was the daughter of Prince Hasan Bey Marshania and Fatma Horecan Hanım Aredba. She came to Istanbul in 1876, and married Prince Mehmed Vahdeddin later known as Mehmed VI, in 1885. She was his only wife for twenty years. She was the mother of three daughters, Münire Fenire Sultan, Fatma Ulviye Sultan, and Rukiye Sabiha Sultan.

After Mehmed acceded to the throne in 1918, she was named 'Senior Kadın'. Mehmed was deposed in 1922 and exiled in 1924. Nazikeda followed him and remained with him until he died in 1926. She spent her last years with her two daughters, Ulviye and Sabiha, and died at Cairo in 1941.