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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.
Sep 22, 2017 · The relationship between Queen Victoria and her handsome, young Indian attendant Abdul Karim was deemed so controversial and scandalous by her family members that, upon the monarch’s...
“I knew that Abdul Karim had come from India to England to serve Queen Victoria in 1887, but the portraits told me he’d been painted as a noble man,” Basu tells TIME during a meeting at her...
Sep 22, 2017 · The extraordinary story of the close relationship between Queen Victoria and the first Indian member of the royal household is now being told.
- Simon Perry
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.
Queen Victoria learned Urdu, she wanted her mango and she stood by Abdul Karim. It sounds like a fantasy, but it isn’t.” Victoria and Abdul is being shown on BBC2 on Saturday 11 April at...
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.
