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Princess Sophia Alexandrovna Duleep Singh (/ s ə ˈ f aɪ. ə / sə-FY-ə; [1] 8 August 1876 – 22 August 1948) was a prominent suffragette in the United Kingdom. Her father was Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh, who had lost his Sikh Empire to the Punjab Province of British India and was subsequently exiled to England.
On 21 October 1893, the day before Sir Duleep Singh's death, Prince Victor Duleep Singh, the eldest son of Sir Duleep Singh, had visions of his father looking at him through a picture frame. [44] Duleep Singh remembered his servant James Cawood who died in 1865 with a gravestone in Killin cemetery, Killin, Scotland. [45]
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh lived in a grace and favour apartment in Hampton Court Palace and had a pitch outside where she sold The Suffragette. [10] Copies were also sold at public events like the Henley Royal Regatta in July 1913. [11] In 1913, a memorial issue was released commemorating the death of Emily Wilding Davison. [12] [13]
The doctor declared her death as due to heart failure. Sophia was inconsolable at her sister's death. She was the only relative who attended the cremation of Singh due to World War II. In memory of her sister, Sophia renamed the Colehatch House "Hilden Hall", adding Catherine's middle name, and sealed the room where she had died. [9]
Photograph of three daughters (Sophia, Bamba, and Catherine) of Maharaja Duleep Singh and Bamba Müller in 1894. When Bamba decided to move to India, she hired a companion. The lady selected was Hungarian Jew, Marie Antoinette Gottesmann, whose father was an Austro-Hungarian government official from the Jewish upper class circles of Budapest.
Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) Indian princess and suffragette, daughter of the last Maharaja of the Punjab. Cremated here, ashes scattered in the Punjab. [116] F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, lawyer-statesman, ashes buried at Charlton, Northamptonshire.
Two weeks after the 26-year-old's sudden passing, Albuquerque police confirmed they're investigating it as a 'suspicious death.' New Details Emerge in the ‘Unique’ Death of Adult Film Star ...
Lioness is an upcoming historical drama film written and directed by Kajri Babbar. The film centres on two British-Punjabi women living in England a century apart. One of the stories is based on the life of Sophia Duleep Singh, the Princess of Punjab and one of the key leaders of the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom, who is portrayed by Paige Sandhu.