![]() ![]() heartbroken to be taken away from their families. We see parallels to Hurrem’s early life here. We now travel to Greece where a young girl named Anastasia seems to have a good, happy life with her family until a group of bandits raids their village but for some reason they only seem to be interested in her. He fears he is going to his death but his grandmother, a now older Safiye informs him that he is now the Sultan. From that moment on Ahmed lives in fear and one night he is awakened. Sadly, Mahmut would make some of the same mistakes Mustafa had years before and Mehmed III would continue the bloody tradition of fathers having sons slain. The boys make a pact that neither will murder the other. It also left a lasting impact on young Ahmed and his brother Mahmut. In previous years there have been less than ten princes murdered but because of Sultan Murad III’s lust, he had 20 sons that could have taken the throne and seeing 19 coffins being carried out of the harem horrified the country. ![]() We learned in Magnificent Century that when a new prince took the throne it was tradition that he had his other brothers murdered. His father came to the throne when he was five years old and he and his older brother were forced to witness one of the most shocking events in the empire’s history. His father is Sultan Mehmed III, his mother Handan. Kosem opens more than 25 years after the death of Sulieman and the voice we hear is that of Ahmed, Sulieman’s great-grandson. ![]()
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