Ladli begum biography for kids

We all know of Jahangir the Mughal emperor, as well as his 12th wife Nur Jehan, and also of her elder brother Asaf Khan, all three of whom are buried in Lahore’s Shahdara near one another.

Strangely, very few are aware of a fourth royal person buried next to Nur Jehan.

That fourth person is Empress Nur Jehan’s daughter Mehr-un-Nisa Khanum, who lies buried next to her mother within the tomb. Her story is a delightful one and needs reminding.

Ladli begum biography for kids pictures

She was the spoilt child of the entire Mughal family, which invited her name as ‘Ladli’. Later in life she was virtually imprisoned in a ‘haveli’ inside the old walled city. She was known among the population as ‘Ladli Begum’.

There is also reference in a book of the house being called ‘Ladli de Haveli’.

She was born in 1605, when Nur Jehan was married to Sher Afghan, her first husband. Many stories even then earlier abounded of Nur Jehan and Shah Jehan, then emperor to be, having a secret love affair.

But Akbar the Mughal Emperor blocked this