This news devastates Mahidevran Sultan, who was readying herself Thursday evening for the Halvet (private chamber.)ĭuring their time together, they laugh gaily and play games. The two then have an enchanting night together, and spend all of Thursday together as well. Alexandra stops him, stating that her fainting spell is only because she has been so excited to spend the night with him. When she reawakens, Suleiman wants to summon a physician. When Alexandra enters the Sultan's chamber, she faints in his arms once more. Hearing this, Alexandra is determined to spend not just this Wednesday night with him, but the next one as well. The reason being that the night connecting Thursday and Friday is a sacred night in Islam, for if a child is conceived on that night, the child will be plentifully blessed. While Nigar Kalfa is preparing her for her evening with the Sultan, she reminds Alexandra that Mahidevran Sultan is his Haseki Sultan (chief consort), and that he spends every Thursday night with her.
The following evening, Alexandra is summoned again to spend the night with the Sultan. However, when the moment arrives, Mahidevran Sultan (the mother of his first heir Şehzade Mustafa), fearing losing Suleiman's attention, suddenly enters Suleiman's chambers instead while Alexandra is sent back to the harem. When her solo ends, he throws to her the purple handkerchief which is an invitation to spend the night with him the next evening. Suleiman can't take his eyes off of Alexandra during the entirety of her seductive solo. Several concubines, including Alexandra and her friend Maria, are chosen to perform for him at the order of Ibrahim Ağa, the Sultan's concierge. The next evening, there is a celebration, organized by his mother the Valide Hafsa Sultan, in Sultan Suleiman's honor. The scheme is successful, and Suleiman is intrigued by her. While he was walking past the girls of his harem, she suddenly calls out his name, and then swoons in his arms. The next day, Hürrem, taking in Nigar's words, takes a drastic step to capture the attention of Sultan Suleiman. If she wins his heart, and gives him a son, she will rule the world as a Sultan. However Nigar Kalfa (one of the main Harem leaders) explains to Alexandra that all of them arrived as slaves, and if Alexandra behaves herself and does as she is told, she will be summoned by the Sultan.
Wanting to die in order to reunite with her dead family and former fiancé. In the beginning, Alexandra is inconsolable, and miserable in her fate. She bested many rivals who ever came close to Sultan Suleiman. Hürrem was possessive, brutal, territorial, and fierce.
Although, eventually she came to truly love Suleiman. Hürrem was a young woman who seduced Sultan Suleiman in order to gain more power in the harem she was abducted into. In the 1520s Crimean Tartars captured her during one of their frequent raids into this region, took her as a slave (first selling her to the Crimean city of Kaffa, a major center of the slave trade, then to Istanbul), and she and her friend from her village, Maria, were sent to Sultan Suleiman's harem. She was the daughter of an Orthodox priest, and her native language was Russian or Ruthenian.
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