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"Suleiman’s love for Hurrem found powerful expression in his poetic letters to her. When both Navagero and Trevisano wrote in their 1553 and 1554 reports to Venice that she was “much loved by her master” (“tanto amata da sua maestà”), Roxolana was already in her fifties, long past her prime. After her death in April 1558, Suleiman remained inconsolable for a long time. She was the greatest love of his life, his soulmate and lawful wife, and a woman of extraordinary character. Suleiman’s great love for Roxolana was manifest in his exceptional treatment of his hasseki. To her benefit, the Sultan broke a series of very important traditions of the imperial harem. In 1533 or 1534 (the exact date is unknown), Suleiman married Hurrem in a magnificent formal ceremony, violating a 300-year-old custom of the Ottoman house according to which sultans were not to marry their concubines. Never before was a former slave elevated to the status of the sultan’s lawful spouse. Moreover, upon marrying hasseki Hurrem, the Sultan became practically monogamous, which was unheard of in Ottoman history. As Trevisano wrote in 1554, once Suleiman had known Roxolana, “not only did he want to have her as a legitimate wife and hold her as such in his seraglio, but he did not even want to know any other woman: something that had never been done by any of his predecessors, for the Turks are accustomed to take various women in order to have children by them, or for carnal pleasure.”

– Roxolana: “The Greatest Empresse of the East” by Galina Yermolenko (DeSales University Center Valley, Pennsylvania)

this is them after 4 kids btw

#i love them #aspa watches mc #magnificent century #surrem

Hürrem Sultan and Sultan Süleyman in Magnificent Century (episode 27)

#magnificent century #muhteşem yüzyıl #hürrem sultan #sultan süleyman #surrem #i need them injected into my veins #we need more surrem over here

mc rewatch. ep 2 - the one who makes us smile

Ok yeah, I've got to admit that this is cute.

#surrem #hurrem sultan #sultan suleyman #muhteşem yüzyıl #magnificent century #mc rewatch #mc 2

I don't think it's a coincidence that the only time a character is called a snake in this episode, it's by a rival for Suleiman's romantic love. Hürrem says her face was destroyed by "the snake woman" (Mahidevran) while Mahidevran insists Hürrem is a snake. A snake, in this episode, is someone competing for Suleiman's heart. The only character other than Suleiman's two female consorts to be called a snake is Ibrahim, which really hints at him being a recipient of Suleiman's romantic love, and a rival to hate and compete with, one that Hürrem identifies as much more of a threat than Mahidevran could ever be, despite Mahidevran being the mother of Suleiman's sole heir.

This is further cemented by a previous scene in the same episode, where Suleiman and Ibrahim discuss Mahidevran's assault on Hürrem. Suleiman does not understand (since he never had to compete for someone's love) while Ibrahim is the one who explains what Mahidevran feels, which adds to the subtext of his love being romantic :

Suleiman asks :

And Ibrahim doesn't respond. And it's only after that scene that we see Ibrahim and Hürrem's jealousy of each other more explicitely, and where they finally declare each other as rivals.

The show very clearly presents Ibrahim as a direct competitor of Hürrem and as Suleiman's number one priority :

There is no explanation to this that isn't romantic. Ibrahim's jealousy mirrors exactly Hürrem's. Hürrem deems him a bigger rival than Mahidevran. He is uncomfortable and upset when Suleiman declares his feelings about Hürrem. Suleiman explicitely acknowledges Hürrem's jealousy and shoots her down in favour of Ibrahim. Even the poetry he recites her is similar to the one he wrote for Ibrahim (maybe I'll elaborate on another post). The plot sets up Ibrahim as Suleiman's love interest, through Mahidevran, through Hürrem, through subtext, through body language, and through actual dialogue.

#magnificent century #sultan suleiman #ibrahim pasha #hurrem sultan #mahidevran sultan #lion tamer #surrem #muhteşem yüzyıl

Suly being all "I banned all coffee forever but you can do anything forever my beloved" <3333 with some fond exasperation is amazing tbh

#mc rewatch #surrem

Ibrahim and Hatice's wedding in the show is the grandest, happiest, most feastful wedding of the series, with as many celebrations as can be. It's obvious why, of course: given the show has the most "foreign politics" plots at this very point, we have to have separate moments of the ambassadors and the people of power acknowledging that whole ordeal, it's the first ever royal wedding we see in the series and it's both a payoff of so many episodes of development of Ibrahim and Hatice's story, a high culmination point, and a setup of the right upcoming close matter of the Jannisary rebellion and the future, more far looming (or that's how it merely looks like) issues of Hatice and Ibrahim's relationship (Gülfem's usual prominence is set aside for a bit to make place for Nigar); each wedding in the show signifies a major change to the status quo, but namely Hatice and Ibrahim's wedding accentuates that the most, as it doesn't just have someone permanently moving to a new place/castle (Hatice here and in E94, Nigar in E44-5, Mihrimah in E99 etc.), giving birth (Mihrimah to Ayşe Hümaşah after her own wedding, but Hürrem to Selim during Hatice's wedding) or getting wounded (Ibrahim during Hürrem's wedding, mirroring E10-E11 a bit) and new twists on established dynamics (not just the wed couples but also Mahidevran and Hürrem, SS and Mustafa, Hürrem and Leo in E17; Nigar and Ibrahim in E17 and E44-5; Hürrem, Hatice and Ibrahim, Hürrem and all the others in general in E42-3; Ibrahim and Matrakci in E44-5 etc.), but it also has a timeskip, showing the older kids to literally stress that a next stage of the characters' lives is coming forth. We get to see what a wedding is like for the first time, in its fullest and most detailed to accustomize ourselves even more in this world, so this may allow for the other weddings to lean on a more individual focus of the characters of the wedding themselves and what the wedding entails for them and those around them, the celebrations dimish and even the time the wedding's given could do so too depending on the narrative point of said wedding (more time could be given to the aftermath of the wedding than the wedding itself like in Nigar and Matrakci's case), formal weddings for ulterior, political purposes and alliances increase much more (while Hatice and Ibrahim's wedding is one of the biggest exceptions in the series and it's fascinating that we begin with it) and we get to have more bittersweetness or outright tragedy if the wedding is such for the characters. The weddings aren't only happy, they can also be like a funeral and we gradually arrive at a stage where we can actually observe that, not having it simply be hinted at (like Hürrem and Hatice's respective weddings to Lala Kasim's son and Mehmet Celebi were hinted at). The grander yet more interpersonal stakes and the bigger lean inside the empire are punctuated by the weddings as well.

{All that is to also say that it's sad that Hürrem claims that she won't get the wedding Hatice gets but Mihrimah will get it instead, when precisely hers and SS's wedding is the closest to Hatice and Ibrahim's in terms of massiveness, unprecedentedness (a big shift in traditions due to a love match as well, or rather, an even bigger one as a sultan hasn't freed and married a concubine for a looong time), structure (ceremony, feasts for the people as well as for those around the sultan and a major parallel event during the wedding, in this case Ibrahim's wounding) and feel (yes, a sorrowful element is around for everyone other than the married people this time instead of the everpresent happiness in Ibrahim and Hatice's wedding that contrasts only with Mahidevran's anguish that isn't even about the wedding, but an even bigger joy is presented for Süleiman and especially Hürrem; in E42 itself, the focus is all on the double joy with the ongoing princely circumcision and the surprising wedding in the very end, while E17 has an ongoing wedding and the surprising birth, so the focus shifts more), while Mihrimah's is a genuinely sorrowful wedding, more parallel to Hatice's E94 wedding than her E17 wedding instead.}