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The film is based on the book Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant by Shrabani Basu, about the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her Indian Muslim servant Abdul Karim.
- Abdul Karim
Mohammed Abdul Karim CVO CIE (1863 — 20 April 1909), also...
- Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill
Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill VA (née Conyngham; 1 June...
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Sep 22, 2017 · The Amazing Real-Life Story Behind 'Victoria & Abdul:' The Queen and the Indian Servant Who Became Her 'Teacher'. The new film starring Judi Dench explores an extraordinary historical...
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Who was this young Muslim man from Agra, northern India, at the heart of Britain’s royal court? And what had his relationship with the Queen of England been like? In 2006, Basu committed herself to...
Jan 7, 2018 · The film Victoria and Abdul is a chronicle of the Queen's unlikely friendship with Abdul Karim, one of her confidants that people know very little about.
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Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant is a book about Queen Victoria and her Munshi Abdul Karim, researched and written by Shrabani Basu, published by The History Press in 2010, and adapted to produce the feature film Victoria & Abdul in 2017.
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Synopsis. 1887, British India. Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young prison clerk from British India, is instructed to travel to Britain for Queen Victoria's (Judi Dench) Golden Jubilee in 1887 to present her with a Mohur, a gold coin that has been minted as a token of appreciation from British-ruled India. Abdul is from a Muslim, Urdu-speaking ...