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Hürrem eventually wielded enormous power, influencing and playing a central role in the politics of the Ottoman Empire.[8] The correspondence between Suleiman and Hürrem, unavailable until the nineteenth century, along with Suleiman’s own diaries, confirms her status as the sultan’s most trusted confidant and adviser. During his frequent absences, the pair exchanged passionate love letters. Hürrem included political information and warned of potential uprisings. She also played an active role in the affairs of the empire and even intervened in affairs between the empire and her former home, apparently helping Poland attain its privileged diplomatic status. She brought a feminine touch to diplomatic relations, sending diplomatic letters accompanied by personally embroidered articles to foreign leaders and their relatives. Two of these notable contemporaries were Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (r. 1548–1572) and Shahzada Sultanum, the favourite sister and intimate counselor of Shah Tahmasp, who exchanged official letters with Hürrem Sultan as well as with an Ottoman royal princess who was probably Mihrümah Sultan, daughter of Hürrem and Suleiman.[9][10]

Hürrem patronized major public works (including the Haseki Sultan Complex and the Hurrem Sultan Bathhouse). She died in April 1558, in Constantinople and was buried in an elegant and beautifully adorned mausoleum adjacent to the site where her husband would join her eight years later in another mausoleum within the grand Süleymaniye Mosque complex in Istanbul.

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