When she entered her fourteenth year, she was noticed by Abdülmecid I and he married her in 1839, at the palace. On 21 September 1840 Şevkefza gave birth to Şehzade Mehmed Murad, and in 1842 she gave birth her daughter Aliye Sultan, but died 1845 as infant. When Bezmiâlem Sultan died in 1853, Şevkefza took courage of Abdülmecid's first wife, the childless Servetseza Kadın's affection for heir Murad and Abdülmecid's wish to see his son as the next Sultan, and rose in opposition to Pertevniyal Sultan and her son Şehzade Abdülaziz.