Esma Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid I)
[1][2] Esma Sultan spend her time in her childhood by reading books, musical instruments and games, her mother, Sineperver, was most likely to manage these entertainments in her apartment.[6] In 1792, when Esma was fourteen, her cousin Selim III arranged her marriage to Küçük Hüseyin Pasha, who was captain of the seas.[8] Following that, he besieged the Vidin Castle, due to lack of soldiers and intense cold, resentment grew against Hüseyin and other statesmen, and Pasvantoğlu was pardoned.One of the sons of French king Louis-Philippe I and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, on a visit, was fascinated by the princess.However, Julia Pardoe, an English writer who was her guest, implied that, even if Esma and her maids did not realize it, their concept of "European style" was rather caricatured in relation to reality.[22] She lived with luxury in her magnificent villa in Istanbul, but still her life passed in sadness because she could not have the one thing she wished for most; a child.[24] All the kalfas in Esma Sultan's villa behaved toward this child as though she were a daughter of an Ottoman imperial princess, and indeed her disposition and manners were so lovely that they became devoted to her.[14] On the eve of Mustafa's execution on 16 November 1808, the Janissaries gathered in front of Mahmud's palace and threatened to have him dethroned and place Esma Sultan on the throne.[15] She exercised great influence over her brother Mahmud during his reign of 31 years; she became his chief advisor and was consulted regularly on state matters.[15] Esma Sultan, bought many farms around Istanbul, built palaces in Eyüp, Maçka, and Tirnakçı and Kuruçeşme mansions in Boğaziçi.She owned a palace in Divanyolu, kiosks in Çamlıca, Maçka and Eyüp and a waterfront mansion in Kuruçeşme at Bosporus.[35] As the guest of Esma Sultan, Miss Julia Pardoe, who went to Tirnakçı, gave detailed information about the mansion.