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Ruqaiya Sultan Begum

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Ruqaiya Sultan Begum (alternatively spelled Ruqayya or Ruqayyah; c. 1542 – January 1626) was the first wife and one of the chief consorts of the third Mughal emperor, Akbar. Ruqaiya was a first cousin of her husband and was a Mughal princess by birth. Her father, Hindal Mirza, was the youngest brother of Akbar's father, Humayun. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ruqaiya Sultan Begum is the 270th most popular companion (up from 451st in 2019). (up from 986th in 2019)

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Among companions, Ruqaiya Sultan Begum ranks 270 out of 784. Before her are Louise of Great Britain, Martha Washington, Nazli Sabri, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, and Christina of Saxony. After her are Eleanor of Castile, Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Agnes of Antioch, Queen Inhyeon, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, and Helen of Greece and Denmark.

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Among people born in 1542, Ruqaiya Sultan Begum ranks 9. Before her are Tokugawa Ieyasu, John of the Cross, Hattori Hanzō, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Robert Bellarmine, and Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira. After her are Jan Zamoyski, Isabella de' Medici, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Henriette of Cleves, Joris Hoefnagel, and Guðbrandur Þorláksson.

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