The Magnificent Century: Kosem & Hurrem Season I. Ahmed, son of Sultan Mehmed III and Handan Sultan, becomes the ruler of the Ottoman Empire after the execution of his older brother Mahmud, and the unexpected loss of his father, Sultan Mehmed III. When one day, his grandmother, the powerful Safiye Sultan, gives him a portrait of a young girl holding a lamb, he takes a liking to her, and she personally orders for the girl to be brought to Topkapi Palace. After being captured from her island home of Tinos, Greek-Venetian Anastasia. Season II. Kösem has been the all-powerful Valide Sultan and regent to her son Sultan Mxurad IV for nearly a decade, when the military unrest causes the latter to deprive her of her authority and the two clash. With the control of the state fully in his hands, Mxurad sets his plans of restoring the empire to the times of prosperity and conquest and checking corruption in motion.