Ottoman Princesses In India (1)

Part One: The sad case of Princess Selma

Elisabeth Khan
5 min readDec 19, 2019

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Topkapi Palace Throne Room, Istanbul (Wikipedia)

To the palace born

Every little girl at one point dreams of being a princess, living in a palace. Even one grown woman I know wishes she’d been born into royalty. But what happens when your kingdom crumbles?

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Elisabeth Khan

Multicultural, multilingual writer, translator, and editor. Co-editor at Literary Impulse and ShabdAaweg Review. Senior Editor at ShabdAaweg Press.