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In 1876, Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her daddy, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the biggest empires of the Indian subcontinent, a realm that extended from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Go and included the mighty cities of Lahore and Peshawar. It had been a territory amazing to the English, who plundered everything, like the fabled Koh-I-Noor stone. Exiled to England, the dispossessed Maharajah altered his house at Elveden in Suffolk into a Moghul palace, its grounds stocked with leopards, monkeys, and incredible birds. Sophia, god-daughter of Queen Victoria, was raised a genteel aristocratic Englishwoman: provided at judge, afforded sophistication and favour lodgings at Hampton Court Palace and photographed wearing the latest styles for the modern culture pages. However when, in magic formula defiance of the English authorities, she travelled to India, she went back a ground-breaking. Sophia transcended her traditions to spend herself to fighting injustice and inequality, a far cry from the life span to which she was born. Her causes were the have difficulties for Indian Independence, the fate of the lascars, the welfare of Indian soldiers in the First World Warfare - and, above all, the struggle for feminine suffrage. She was striking and fearless, attacking politicians, placing herself in the front range and swapping her silks for a nurse's standard to seem wounded soldiers evacuated from the battlefields. Meticulously investigated and passionately written, this enthralling story of the climb of women and the fall of empire introduces a fantastic specific and her part in the defining occasions of recent English and Indian record.
