Suleiman the Magnificent laid his beloved wife to rest in a magnificent mosque. Following the sultan’s own death nearly a decade later, Hürrem Sultana’s son Selim II took the throne.

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...