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{{Infobox monarch<br />
| image = Ghulam Ali Khan 017b.jpg<br />
| caption = The portrait of Mirza Fakhru<br />
| name = Mirza Fakhru<br />
| title = [[Mirza (name)|Mirza]]<ref>[https://www.dawn.com/news/595548/past-present-emperors-new-names Mughal title ''Mirza''], the title of Mirza and not Khan or Padshah, which were the titles of the Mongol rulers.</ref><br />
| full name = Fath ul-Mulk, Shahzada Mirza Muhammad Sultan Shah, Firuz Jang, Wali Ahd Bahadur<br />
| birth_date = 1816–18<br />
| birth_place = [[Red Fort]], [[Old Delhi]], [[Mughal Kingdom]]<br />
| death_date = 10 July 1856 (aged 38–40)<br />
| death_place = [[Red Fort]], [[Old Delhi]], [[Mughal Kingdom]]<br />
| burial_place = <br />
| spouse = {{plainlist|<br />
*Raffat Sultan Begum<br />
*Wazir Khanum}}<br />
| father = [[Bahadur Shah Zafar]]<br />
| mother = Rahim Buksh Bai Begum<br />
| issue = {{plainlist|<br />
*[[Mirza Abu Bakht]]<br />
*Mirza Fakhrunda Jamal<br />
*[[Daagh Dehlvi]] (stepson)}}<br />
| house = [[Mughal dynasty|Mughal]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur''' also known as '''Mirza Fakhru''' ({{circa}} 1816 or 1818 – 10 July 1856) was the last Crown Prince of the [[Mughal Empire]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
A senior Prince of the [[Mughal dynasty|Mughal Imperial Family]], he was the son of [[Bahadur Shah Zafar]], the last [[Mughal Emperors|Mughal Emperor]], through his wife Rahim Bukhsh Bai Begum.<ref>[http://uqconnect.net/~zzhsoszy/ips/misc/mughal.html The House of Timur:: Delhi's Royal Family] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613062308/http://uqconnect.net/~zzhsoszy/ips/misc/mughal.html |date=2011-06-13 }}</ref><br />
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Fath-ul-Mulk was named Crown Prince in 1853. However he predeceased his father, dying supposedly of [[cholera]] in 1856. Other sources suggest that he was poisoned by rivals with symptoms similar to those exhibited by his friend Sir Thomas Metcalfe.<br />
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==Family==<br />
Fath-ul-Mulk was an older brother of Prince [[Mirza Mughal]] and the younger brother of former Crown Prince [[Mirza Dara Bakht]].<br />
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Fath-ul-Mulk married several wives and was the father of several children. Among his wives was Wazir Khanum, daughter of a rich jeweller and a well-known beauty of the time. Wazir Khanum had previously been married to Shamshuddin, Nawab of [[Ferozepur Jhirka]], a relative and close friend of [[Mirza Ghalib]], and she had borne Nawab Shamshuddin a son, the noted poet [[Dagh Dehlvi]]. After the Nawab was hanged for plotting and paying for the murder of British officer [[William Fraser (British India civil servant)|William Fraser]], Wazir Khanum married Fath-ul-Mulk, and he thus became the step-father of [[Dagh Dehlvi]], who would later become a famous poet.<br />
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Among Fath-ul-Mulk's own sons were [[Mirza Abu Bakht]], Mirza Fakhrunda Jamal and Mirza Mohammed baig who moved to Deccan Among his daughters was Sikander Jehan Begum, who was married to a sufi mystic and became the mother of two daughters and a son, Mirza Qutb-e-Alam.<br />
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