
Hurrem Sultan ( Empress Roxelana )
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
The Harem
Anastasia was taken into service in the household of the sultan's granddaughter. Was she though, i think about the trama she's just been through, maybe she just had the opposite of r b f or probably was intelligent enough to fake it until she made it? She didn't have any way to escape. The women in the harem lived in the kind of luxury we can only dream of. Their every material want was present, from clothes to furnishings to food. In fact, they had every luxury but that of liberty. They were guarded 24 hours a day by eunuchs - men who had been castrated to eliminate the threat of sexual rivalry with the sultan
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