REAL STORY, TAKEN FROM THE BOOK OF.
THE WOMEN OF THE IMPERIAL HAREM👑
Theodora was born around 1332, one of the three daughters that the Byzantine emperor John VI had with Irene Asanina, his empress consort. In January 1346, to consolidate the “alliance” between both empires (more actually a way to prevent the Ottomans from giving their aid to Anne of Savoy), Theodora was betrothed to Sultan Orhan I. The arranged marriage took place in the summer of that same year. Her family escorted her to Selymbria, where the Ottomans arrived in a fleet of thirty ships. A ceremony was held in Selymbria, followed by the imperial wedding, across the Sea of ​​Marmara, in Bithynia. Although her husband was Muslim, Theodora continued to profess the religion with which she had been indoctrinated since she was a child, and she was also quite active in favoring the Christians who lived throughout the empire. In 1347, she gave birth to her son, Åžehzade Halil, who was kidnapped by Genoese pirates when he was a child. Emperor John V Paleologos was a key player in the prince’s liberation. She was also the mother of Hatice Hatun, who is speculated to have been born in 1351. Not counting a short-lived stay of days in Constantinople in February 1347, due to her father’s victory in the civil war, Theodora remained at the Ottoman court until her husband’s death in 1362. After that he apparently returned to Byzantium this time to stay the rest of his life with his sister the Empress Helena. The last record of her is that she was briefly imprisoned in 1381 in Galata during the reign of Andronicus IV Palaeologus. It is unknown when he died
