![]() She was a mystery that came and built a family. We never knew where she came from, or what her family was. We never knew what her real name was, but the name we know her by is Roqayah Hanim Abdullah. One was what we often read about, ladies trained to please men of the court, and the other, was a place where young girls were educated so that one day, they would be able to run households, do the accounts and be good wives. At the time, there were two types of harems. Somewhere along the way, she had been taken by the Royal Palace of the Ottoman Empire to be trained and educated in a harem so that one day she could be an accessory in building ties between two countries. In 1864, a girl was born somewhere near the Black Sea.
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