369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

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The Children in the Nursery: Sophia's Siblings

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Dalrymple sketches the six surviving Duleep Singh children as they appear in the family's famous photographs: Victor (eldest, destined for Sandhurst), Frederick (Cambridge-bound antiquarian who will ban electricity from his Norfolk home and hang Oliver Cromwell's portrait upside down in his toilet), Albert Edward 'Eddie', and the three sisters Bamba, Catherine, and Sophia. Anand notes that the women are 'much more interesting than the men, as so often the case', and that the household is increasingly unstable — Bamba Müller, lonely and abandoned by her philandering husband, is beginning to drink heavily. The family splits time between Belgravia and the grand Elveden estate, but the comfortable façade is already cracking.