 According to genealogies of the House of Osman, had the Sultanate not been abolished, there would be twenty-five Imperial Princes in the line of succession after Bayezid Osman (1924-2017), the late head of the family.The succession law used is agnatic seniority, with the succession passing to eldest male dynast.The formal way of addressing the female descendants of the Ottoman Sultans is "Devletlû İsmetlu" (given name) "Sultân Aliyyetü'ş-Şân Hazretleri", i.e.