The Beylerbeyi Palace Beylerbeyi
meaning "Lord of Lords" is located in
the Beylerbeyi neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey at the Asian side of
the Bosphorus. An Imperial Ottoman summer residence built in the 1860s,
it is now situated immediately north of the 1973 Bosphorus Bridge
.Beylerbeyi Palace was commissioned by Sultan Abdülaziz (1830–1876) and
built between 1861 and 1865 as a summer residence and a place to
entertain visiting heads of state. Empress Eugénie of France visited
Beylerbeyi on her way to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and had
her face slapped by the sultan's mother for daring to enter the palace
on the arm of Abdülaziz. (Despite her initial reception, Empress Eugénie
of France was so delighted by the elegance of the palace that she had a
copy of the window in the guest room made for her bedroom in Tuileries
Palace, in Paris.) Other regal visitors to the palace included the Duke
and Duchess of Windsor. The palace was the last place of captivity of
the deposed sultan Abdulhamid II from 1912 until his death there in
1918..
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