H.I.H. Prince Ali Vâsıb (known in Turkish as ?Ali Vâsıb Efendi' ? or, using his Turkish surname, as ?Ali Vâsıb Osmanoğlu') was born in the Çırağan Palace, on the shores of the Bosphorus in İstanbul, in 1903. His memoirs deal with the life and times of the Ottoman Imperial family during the last years of the Ottoman Sultanate, as well as with his life during his enforced exile in Hungary, France and Egypt. While in İstanbul he witnessed the First World War, the abolition of the Sultanate in 1923 and then tha