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Vanessa Kay Pergolizzi [2] grew up in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan [3] and attended The Dwight School, [4] a private school. Charles Haydon, her stepfather, [5] to whom some news articles have referred as her father, [6] [7] was a lawyer.
e. The Sultanate of Women ( Ottoman Turkish: قادينلر سلطنتى, romanized : Kadınlar saltanatı) was a period when some consorts and mothers of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire exerted extraordinary political influence. This phenomenon took place from roughly 1534 to 1683, beginning in the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent with his ...
t. e. Concubinage in the Muslim world was the practice of Muslim men entering into intimate relationships without marriage, [ 2] with enslaved women, [ 3] though in rare, exceptional cases, sometimes with free women. [ 4][ 5][ 6] If the concubine gave birth to a child, she attained a higher status known as umm al-walad.
Sultan (سلطان) is a word of Arabic origin, originally meaning "authority" or "dominion". By the beginning of the 16th century, the title of sultan, carried by both men and women of the Ottoman dynasty, was replacing other titles by which prominent members of the imperial family had been known (notably hatun for women and bey for men), with imperial women carrying the title of "Sultan ...
Royal family of Brunei. Jefri Bolkiah ibni Omar Ali Saifuddien III[ 1] (born 6 November 1954) [ 2] is a member of the Bruneian royal family. His elder brother is the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah. [ 3] Prince Jefri was the finance minister of his oil-rich country from 1986 to 1997. [ 1]
Mihrimah Sultan ( Ottoman Turkish: مهرماه سلطان, " sun and moon " or " light of the moon ", Turkish pronunciation: [mihɾiˈmah suɫˈtan]; 1522 – 25 January 1578) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent and his wife, Hürrem Sultan. She was the most powerful imperial princess in Ottoman ...
Oksana Voevodina on Instagram. Oxana Andreevna Voevodina ( Russian: Оксана Андре́евна Воеводина, romanized : Oxana Andreevna Voevodina; born 10 July 1992 in Taganrog [ 1] ), also known as Rihana Petra, is a Russian model who is the former wife of Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan. They married during his reign as the 15th ...
Nur Jahan ( lit. ' Light of the world '; 31 May 1577 – 18 December 1645), [ 2] born Mehr-un-Nissa was the twentieth wife and chief consort of the Mughal emperor Jahangir . More decisive and proactive than her husband, Nur Jahan is considered by certain historians to have been the real power behind the throne for more than a decade.