201:, so she visited her from time to time; in one of her visits she told her just how miserable she was to be living separate from her husband, so Refia Sultan asked her uncle, Sultan Abdülaziz, to recall the ambassador and give him a post in Istanbul, which is exactly what happened. The two sisters went to Refia Sultan to thank her and Meyliservet, who had never been in the palace, liked it so much that she expressed the desire to stay and never leave. The Kalfas were shocked and tried to tell her that she was a city girl and that city girls did not enter palace service, but she swore she would not leave even if she was to execute for refusing to go. Refia Sultan thought about it and said: "Oh well, what of it. If someone wants to join us, we'll gladly take her in. It really doesn't matter if she's a city girl, let her stay. Give her a room." Refia Sultan took Meyliservet into the palace and had her provided with special training. Meyliservet was therefore an exception among Ottoman ladies: she was neither a slave nor had she been sent to court by her family, but a free woman who remained at court of her own free choice.
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excellent but Murad did not even notice her: Meyliserver had caught his eye. After the dinner the orchestra struck up and
European music started and people started dancing, Murad summoned Meyliservet and danced with her. When Princess Refia noticed what was happening, she was reluctant to tell her brother that she had groomed the blonde girl for him, so she pulled her other brother Prince Kemaleddin aside and asked him to do so. Prince Kemaleddin approached Prince Murad on some pretext and relayed to him what their sister had said, but he received this reply from Prince Murad: "I don't care for that blonde girl. I'd like our sister to give me the girl I danced with". Refia Sultan sent Meyliservet forthwith to the apartments of the Heir located at the
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unable to speak. At third day she made known that she wanted pen and paper. She wrote her testament and showed it to Murad V: "I shall not recover from this illness. I entrust my daughter into your care." She died at Çırağan Palace, next day, on 9 December 1891, sadly and quietly. Murad suffered much for her death that in the last years of his life he never again took to music with anything near the same enthusiasm that he once had. She died years before Murad and therefore never left Çırağan Palace. She was the only consort to die before Murad.
197:. She had an elder sister, who was the wife of the ambassador to Rome. Her sister took her with her to Italy, and provided her with an excellent education. She learned several languages. After remaining in Italy for more than eight years, the two sisters returned to Istanbul where they lived a lonely life. Meyliservet's elder sister knew Murad V's half-sister
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Meyliservet. She fainted and culminated in a worsening of her illness. In there days she became
225:, Meyliservet was given the title of "Fourth Kadın". After reigning for three months, Murad was deposed on 30 August 1876, due to mental instability and was imprisoned in the Çırağan Palace. Meyliservet and her one-year-old daughter also followed Murad into confinement.
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