Şehzade Cihangir

Born in 1531 to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and Hürrem Sultan, Cihangir was the sixth and final child in a household where succession meant survival. He grew up in the shadow of older brothers vying for their father's throne, a world of silk and conspiracy. Whatever path he might have carved was cut short on 27 November 1553, when he died at twenty-two. The reasons and circumstances that ended his life remain in the historical record, but the fact remains: he was a prince who never wore the crown.