Victoria and the Munshi

Abdul Karim, a lowly Indian brought to England to wait at table in Victoria’s Goslden Jubiliee in 1887, became the Queen’s favoured courtier, enjoying her complete confidence and trust but stirring considerable resentment in government and in the royal Household. After Victoria’s death, he returned to India, living on the estate in Agra which she had given him.

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