 The Anglo-Ottoman alliance would never be consummated, however, as relations between the nations grew stagnant due to anti-European sentiments reaped from the worsening Austro-Ottoman War and the deaths of Safiye Sultan's interpreter and the pro-English chief Hasan Pasha.Mehmed died on 22 December 1603 at the age of 37.According to one source, the cause of his death was the distress caused by the death of his son, Şehzade Mahmud.