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Legal Wives in Magnificent Century: Haseki Hürrem Sultan

Born as Alexandra in Ruthenia and renamed Hurrem. She was the legal wife of Sultan Suleiman I “the magnificent” and the first Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. She had five children: Sehzade Mehmet, Mihrimah Sultan, Shezade Selim (later Sultan Selim II), Sehzade Bayezid and Sehzade Cihangir.