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Mar 27, 2019 · Wikimedia Commons Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim, July 1893. Before she’d met Abdul Karim, one of Queen Victoria’s servants and closest friends had been John Brown. The two had reportedly been so close that rumors of an affair between them ran rampant through the court. Behind her back, her servants would even refer to the Queen as “Mrs ...
Sep 20, 2017 · Karim would quickly prove to be the queen’s most trusted confidant, and the most despised member of the royal court. Queen Victoria’s unusually close friendship with her Indian servant began ...
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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 relationship ...
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Dec 9, 2021 · According to Shrabani Basu, the journalist who uncovered this friendship and wrote the Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant: “In letters to him over the years between his arrival in the U.K. and her death in 1901, the queen signed letters to him as ‘your loving mother’ and ‘your closest friend.
As she got to know them, especially Karim, the Queen developed a great affection for India and the Indian people. It is the special merit of Basu’s book that it illustrates and documents this fact in the Queen’s life very convincingly. Victoria deeply regretted the fact that, because of old age, she could not visit India.
Oct 4, 2017 · Shrabani Basu, author of the book Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant, told TIME Magazine, "Queen Victoria's staff did bring her a mango from India. Karim told her it would be rotten but she really wanted to try one. Her staff had one sent over, but of course it took six weeks to arrive and went off in the meantime."
Mar 14, 2011 · 14 March 2011. Abdul Karim was one of Queen Victoria's closest confidants despite efforts by royal circles to suppress their relationship before and after her death. By Alastair Lawson. BBC News ...
