Manolya Onur

Manolya Onur was born in 1955 in Istanbul, Turkey. She competed in the Miss Turkey pageant in 1976 and won the second place. She then represented Turkey in the 1976 Miss Universe beauty pageant, where she was among the top 12 finalists. She had a career as a model from 1976 to 1978. She spent six years in France studying English, French, German, and the History of Art at the Sorbonne University. She was a granddaughter-in-law of Sultan Abdülmecid II, the last Ottoman Caliph. She married Mukarram Jah, the titular Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, in August 1992 at Çırağan Palace, Hyderabad and became a princess styled as H.E.H. Manolya-i-Nur Begum Sahiba. She lived in India and Australia during her marriage. Their daughter Niloufer (named after Princess Niloufer) was born in 1993. Nizam divorced Manolya in 1997 at Geneva, Switzerland. After her divorce, Manolya moved back to Turkey and lived in Istanbul. She worked for charitable institutions such as the Osteoporosis Patient Society. She died of lung edema in 2017 at the age of 62. She was buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery in Istanbul.