Historyland Ferdaws

  Mustafa III was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774.  He was a son of Sultan Ahmed III (1703–30), and his consort Mihrişah Kadın.  He was succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I (1774–89). Mustafa was born at the Edirne Palace on  28 January 1717 .  His father was Sultan Ahmed III, and his mother was Mihrişah Kadın.He had a full brother named, Şehzade Süleyman.  In 1720, a large fifteen day circumcision ceremony took place for Mustafa, and his brothers, princes Süleyman, Mehmed, and Bayezid.  In 1730, after the Patrona Halil revolt, led to the deposition of his father Sultan Ahmed III,[4] and the succession of his cousin Sultan Mahmud I, Mustafa, his father,  and brothers were all locked up in the Topkapı Palace.  In 1756, after the death of his elder half-brother Mehmed, he became heir to the throne. Soon after his accession to the throne, Mustafa demonstrated a special care for justice.  He took a number of measures to increase prosperity in Istanbul.  He regulated co

  In the wake of such grisly events, the Boleyn name seemed to offer a moral lesson in what could happen to those whose ambition enticed them to rise ‘above their station’. History has relegated the story of the Boleyns to a soap opera – and Anne’s father, Thomas, is often the villain of the piece, widely derided as a callous, grasping courtier who would stop at nothing to advance his own interests. Such accusations were first levelled at Thomas during his own lifetime, put about by supporters of  Henry VIII ’s first queen,  Catherine of Aragon , who despised Anne. And those accusations stuck. One modern historian famously remarked that, on his way to an earl dom, Thomas “slipped, or appears to have slipped, two daughters in succession into the king’s bed”. (The other daughter was Anne’s sister,  Mary Boleyn , who was  Henry VIII’s mistress , and may have borne him two children). But of all the barbs directed at Thomas, perhaps the most damaging is the one that he blithely accepted the