No one can deny Hürrem is a forceful person that will do anything, including kill, to gain power. Like so many stories that take place in the harem, the ladies in here are not necessarily sympathetic, but they are interesting. Since Suleiman truly loved Gülbehar, she used every trick in the book to steal him away from his favourite. We hear not only from him, but from the three women the story focuses on: Hürrem, Gülbehar and Julia.įirst off we get the story of Hürrem’s rise to power within the harem. This is more the tale of three very different women than the tale of Suleiman, but the thought is definitely there. From medieval Venice to the slave markets of Algiers, from the mountains of Persia to the forbidden seraglio of the Ottoman’s greatest sultan, this is a story of passion and intrigue in a world where nothing is really as it seems. This is the astonishing story of Suleiman, the one they called the Magnificent, and the woman he loved. Why then did the King of Kings, Possessor of Mens Necks, forsake his harem for the love of just one woman, and marry her in defiance of the centuries-old code of the Osmanlis? He had everything a man might dream of wealth, power and the choice of hundreds of the most beautiful women in his Empire. (Cover picture courtesy of History and Women.)
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