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Selim III's sister, Shah Sultan, sounds amazing, too. According to Charles MacFarlane, writing in 1850:

"When Shah Sultana, sister to Selim III, was married to Kara Mustafa Pasha, her Highness established the superiority of her rank over her husband...
"in a summary manner; and this upon their wedding night. The impatient Pasha, not aware of the fiery and capricious character of his imperial bride, vainly waited until within an hour of dawn for the wonted summons to the nuptial chamber..."
"At length, fearing that the muezzin would announce morning prayer before he could enter his wife's apartment, and that he should consequently be accused of neglect, he set aside his twentieth pipe, and boldly proceeded to the harem..."
"Here he opened the Sultana's door, said his prayer, and approached the foot of the couch. Better had he disturbed a sleeping lioness."

YESSSSSS
"As he was in the act of stooping to kiss the hem of the coverlet, the recumbent Sultana cast him prostrate with a blow of her feet."
He pleads with her, she scratches him.

"Then, clapping her hands for her female attendants, she bade them drive the insolent intruder from her presence, and retired to her bed to compose herself..."
"Not satisfied with this explosion of choler, the irritated princess proceeded next morning to the Seraglio, and throwing herself upon her knees, at her Imperial brother's feet, demanded the immediate disgrace of the 'infringer of etiquette,' and..."
"...her divorce from 'the insulter of her dignity." Sultan Selim listened attentively and, when she had finished speaking, highly applauded her spirit and promised to admonish and chastise the husband."
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