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  • Family name: Duleep Singh
  • His Highness Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh (the father)
  • Sir Dalip Singh (the father)
  • Black Prince of Perthshire (the father)[1]
  • Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (the son)

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

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Acquaintances

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  • The father may have met Madame Helena Blavatsky, or at least her "Master Morya" (c. 1854).

Friends

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Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, the Father

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  • Queen Victoria
  • Prince Albert
  • Sir John Spencer and Lady Login, although he may not have had any choice about their relationship

Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, the Son

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Organizations

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  • Freemasons (the father)[1]

Timeline

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1843 September 16, Duleep Singh became Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, with his mother as regent.[1]

1854, Duleep Singh was exiled to the U.K.[1]

1861, Duleep Singh was admitted to a Freemason Lodge.[1]

1861 January 16, Duleep Singh went to Calcutta, saw his mother after many years, and returned to England with her, after which she told him about his Sikh and royal heritage.[1]

1864 June 17, Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh and Maharani Bamba Müller married in the British Consulate in Alexandra, Egypt.[2]

1886 March 13, Prince Duleep Singh tried to escape to India.[1]

1887, Singh was increasingly dissatisfied with how the empire and the Queen had treated him:

Even as London was preparing for the Jubilee Parades, and the Jubilee Service in Westminster Abbey, the Emperor of Russia was reading the following letter addressed to himself: ‘I am a patriot and seek only to deliver some 250,000,000 of my countrymen from this cruel yoke of the British rule.’ The same pen had earlier issued ‘proclamations’ from a print- [816–817] ing press in Paris, calling for the liberation of the 250 million, and asserting that he would return to the Punjab to reclaim his rightful inheritance. When flown with drink in the Irish and American Bar in the rue Royale, he had even been known to refer to the English monarch as 'Mrs Fagin', for, said he, 'she's really a receiver of stolen property'. ... The owner of the diamond had been depicted as a beautiful boy by Winterhalter, and his portrait hung on the walls of the Queen’s palaces. He had been so entirely assimilated as to have undergone baptism, to have been established as a landowner [817–818] with a great shooting estate at Elvedon in Suffolk, and to send his sons to Eton. But the svelte youth whose fleeting beauty was captured by Winterhalter had lost his hair and developed a paunch, and as well as becoming an old roué who haunted theatres and bars in London. He was also confronted by death. And he wanted to revert to the religion of his youth. He converted back to Sikhism, and dreamed of reclaiming his old territories in the Punjab.[3]:816–818 of 1204

1889, Prince Duleep Singh married Ada Douglas Wetherill, with whom he had been living in Paris.[1]

1894, Bamba Sophia Jindan Duleep Singh[4] and Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh[5] were presented to Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace.

1897 July 2, Friday, Prince Victor Duleep Singh attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1898, Queen Victorian granted her god-daughters Bamba, Catherine[6] and Sophia Singh "a grace and favor apartment in Faraday House, Hampton Court."[7]

1898 January 4, Prince Victor Duleep Singh and Lady Anne Blanche Alice Coventry married.[8]

Black-and-white photograph of a seated man richly dressed in a costume
Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh in costume as Akbar. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.
Colorful picture showing man on horse welcoming his sons
Akbar, center of the image, on horseback, receiving his sons at Fathpur Akbarnama

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

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Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (at 558) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.[9]:p. 12, Col. 4b

Alexander Bassano's portrait of "Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh as Akbar" in costume is photogravure #70 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery.[10] The printing on the portrait says, "H. H. Prince Victor Duleep Singh as Akbar."[11]

Akbar is probably Muslim philosopher and political and religious leader Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), or Akbar the Great, third Mughal emperor.[12] The Mughal (or Moghul) empire corresponded roughly to what is today India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.[13] Akbar's mother was Persian.[13] The picture on the right is from 1573.

Questions and Notes

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  1. He was set up to rule at the age of 5, with his mother as regent, but he was kidnapped by the British and taken to England. He converted to Christianity before he was 15 and regretted it later.
  2. The Koh-I-Nor diamond had been his.[14]

Demographics

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Nationality

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  • Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, the father: what was then Sikh Empire, now Punjabi, then England[1]
  • Maharani Bamba, Lady Duleep Singh (Bamba Müller), Egyptian mother, German father; then England[15]

Family

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  • Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (6 September 1838 – 22 October 1893)[1]
  • Maharani Bamba, Lady Duleep Singh (born Bamba Müller; 6 July 1848 – 18 September 1887)[15]
  1. Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (10 January 1866 – 7 June 1918)[16]
  2. Frederick Duleep Singh (23 January 1868 – 15 August 1926)[17]
  3. Bamba Sophia Jindan Duleep Singh (29 September 1869 – 10 March 1957)[4]
  4. Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh (27 October 1871 – 8 November 1942)[5]
  5. Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh (8 August 1876 – 22 August 1948)[7]
  6. Prince Edward Albert Duleep Singh (1879 – 1 May 1893)[1]
  • Ada Douglas Wetherill ()
  1. Princess Pauline Alexandra Duleep Singh (26 December 1887 – 10 April 1941)[1]
  2. Princess Ada Irene Beryl Duleep Singh (25 October 1889 – 14 September 1926)[1]


Notes and Questions

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  1. Which supper seating was Duleep Singh in?

References

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  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 "Duleep Singh". Wikipedia. 2021-10-08. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duleep_Singh&oldid=1048802171.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duleep_Singh.
  2. ↑ "Duleep Singh." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-13. https://www.thepeerage.com/p44522.htm#i445220.
  3. ↑ Wilson, A. N. Victoria: A Life. Penguin, 2014. Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/victoria/id828766078.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Bamba Sutherland". Wikipedia. 2021-09-09. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bamba_Sutherland&oldid=1043317529.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamba_Sutherland.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh". Wikipedia. 2021-07-03. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catherine_Hilda_Duleep_Singh&oldid=1031762165.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Hilda_Duleep_Singh.
  6. ↑ Taylor, Virgil. "A Maharaja’s daughter at Hampton Court: the story of Catherine Duleep Singh." Maharajah Duleep Singh: Sovereign, Squire, Rebel. 27 February 2019 http://duleepsingh.com/test-event-3/.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Sophia Duleep Singh". Wikipedia. 2021-10-12. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sophia_Duleep_Singh&oldid=1049545270.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Duleep_Singh.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Lady Anne Blanche Alice Coventry." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-13. https://www.thepeerage.com/p6247.htm#i62468.
  9. ↑ "Ball at Devonshire House." The Times Saturday 3 July 1897: 12 [of 20], Cols. 1a–4c [of 6] The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 Nov. 2015.
  10. ↑ "Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball (1897): photogravures by Walker & Boutall after various photographers." 1899. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?set=515.
  11. ↑ "Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh as Akbar." Diamond Jubilee Fancy Dress Ball. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw158424/Prince-Victor-Albert-Jay-Duleep-Singh-as-Akbar.
  12. ↑ "Akbar". Wikipedia. 2021-11-15. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Akbar&oldid=1055393529.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Mughal emperors". Wikipedia. 2021-11-20. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mughal_emperors&oldid=1056200921.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_emperors.
  14. ↑ Fox, Essie. "Queen Victoria, the Maharajah, and the Diamond." Maharajah Duleep Singh: Sovereign, Squire, Rebel 11 March 2020 http://duleepsingh.com/test-event/.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Bamba Müller". Wikipedia. 2021-06-22. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bamba_M%C3%BCller&oldid=1029836156.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamba_Müller.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Victor Duleep Singh". Wikipedia. 2021-10-08. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Duleep_Singh&oldid=1048918176.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Duleep_Singh.
  17. ↑ "Frederick Duleep Singh". Wikipedia. 2021-09-11. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Duleep_Singh&oldid=1043628369.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Duleep_Singh.
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