Neslisah Sultan, last in line to the dynasty that once ruled the Ottoman empire, has died at the age of 91.

Once known as Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire and Princess of Egypt, Sultan was the granddaughter of the last Ottoman sultan, Mehmed VI.

She died on Monday and was to be buried yesterday in the former Ottoman capital after a religious ceremony.

She was the last member of the Ottoman dynasty to be born before the empire was disbanded in 1922 in the wake of World War I and modern Turkey created in its place by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

After the death in 2009 of Ertugrul Osman Osmanoglu, the last pretender to the Ottoman throne, she took the title of "last in line to the Osmanogullari family", the Ottoman dynasty.