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LELLA KMAR ''was a Circassian odalisque who married three of the beys of Tunisia. She was born in 1862, and by the age of 12 she was sent as a gift by the ottoman sultan Abdelhamid II to the Bey of Tunisia Sadok Bey who married her in 1877 until his death in 1882. According to historians, the marriage was not consummated and Sadok Bey treated her as a daughter although she was his wife. After the death of her husband, Lella Kmar married Ali bey and during the twenty years of his ruling she was his advisor. Although she was not particularly beautiful, lella Kmar was known for her sharp intelligence and wisdom. She was an influencer, all the women of the royal palace would seek her advice before doing anything. She enjoyed a great regard until the death of Ali Bey in 1902. Hedi Bey succeeded his father Ali Bey on the throne of Tunisia and didn't really like Lella Kmar. Luckily for her, Hedi Bey didn't sit long on the throne of Tunisia and in 1922 he was succeeded by Naceur Bey, the father of the later beloved Tunisian Bey Moncef Bey or as he was referred to, "the Bey of the people." Lalla Kmar fell in love for the first time in her life with Naceur Bey, and since she never had any children, she raised her nephew Chadli Haider and Moncef Bey her step-son as her own. The love of Naceur Bey for her was so great that between 1914 and 1915 he built her a palace as a gift in the charming mediterranean city of La Marsa few miles outside of the capital Tunis. The palace was called "Essaada Palace" literally the palace of happiness.Everyone knew how much Naceur Bey loved her, that the British Ambassador to the Tunisian kingdom at the time wrote to Buckingham Palace suggesting sending Lella Kmar a gift because the Bey was madly in love with her. Naceur Bey even issued a royal decree ordering the obligation to respect her during his presence and absence. Lella Kmar was also known for being in good terms with the national movement and the resistance against the french colonial regime and for meeting regularly in the palace was the movement's leaders. After the death of Naceur Bey on july 8th 1922,Lella Kmar was devastated for losing the love of her life and neither Mohamed Lahbib Bey nor Ahmed II liked her. Both of them isolated her and excluded her from the different royal ceremonies. In 1942 she regained her prestige and the regard she enjoyed with Moncef Bey sitting on the throne of Tunisia. They were very close and Moncef Bey loved her as a mother and would go see her every day. She spent the last 8 months of her life in dignity, well respected under his reign until she passed away in 1942.''