Snapshot · Empire: World History
The British government offered Catherine and Bamba a £10,000 dowry each if they married, which the hosts suggest was set partly because officials assumed the 'difficult' sisters would never wed.
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The announcement arrived by telegram: 'I should now be addressed as Princess Bamba Sutherland.' Her family was baffled. Here was a woman who had spent decades railing against the white establishment, who had told Sophia she could never trust British people — and she had married one of them. Lieutenant Colonel David Waters Sutherland was Australian by birth, Scottish by heritage, son of a gold miner from Victoria, and the Honourable Surgeon to the Viceroy of India: Raj central casting. But the logic was clear when Anita unpicks it. [1] — Anita Arundhati "Married 1915 — 20 years older husband: In 1915, Princess Bamba secretly married Lieutenant Colonel David Waters Sutherland, an Australian-b…" 23:54 Bamba could not access her father's money or her family stipend without marrying. The British government had placed a £10,000 dowry provision for both Catherine and Bamba — inserted, Anita suspects with some dark amusement, because officials assumed women so difficult and unconventional would never actually find husbands. Bamba proved them wrong. Being the widow of a British colonial doctor also conferred legal residency in Lahore and, crucially, an identity she could deploy if threatened. He died in Scotland in 1939. She was in Lahore. They never had children.
In 1915, Princess Bamba secretly married Lieutenant Colonel David Waters Sutherland, an Australian-born Raj surgeon 20 years her senior, announcing it only by telegram.
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