India: Empress Nur Jahan, wife of Emperor Jahangir. Miniature watercolour painting, Delhi, c. 1840. Begum Nur Jahan (alternative spelling Noor Jahan, Nur Jehan, Nor Jahan), also known as Mehr-un-Nisaa, was an Empress of the Mughal Dynasty that ruled much of the Indian subcontinent. Begum Nur Jahan was the twentieth and favourite wife of Mughal Emperor Jahangir, who was her second husband - and the most famous Empress of the Mughal Empire. The story of the couple's infatuation for each other and the relationship that abided between them is the stuff of many (often apocryphal) legends.

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