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Ruqaiya Sultan Begum
Empress Consort
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.[3][4]
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. She was betrothed to Akbar at the age of nine and married him at 14, but remained childless throughout her marriage.
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She was, being the first wife, also known as Zan-i-Kalan. In later life she raised Akbar and Mariam-uz-Zamani's grandson, Khurram (the future emperor Shah Jahan).
Family and lineage
Ruqaiya Sultan Begum was born into the Timurid dynasty as a Mughal princess, and was the only daughter of Mughal prince Hindal Mirza, the youngest son of the first Mughal emperor Babur from his wife Dildar Begum.[6] Ruqaiya's mother, Sultanam Begum, was the daughter of Muham