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  1. Abdul Karim
    Indian royal domestic servant in the UK

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  1. Mar 14, 2011 · Watch: Shrabani Basu talks about the relationship between Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim. Within a year, the young Muslim was established as a powerful figure in court, becoming the queen's ...

  2. Oct 4, 2017 · It wasn't an accident that little evidence remained of Queen Victoria's close friendship with Abdul Karim. After her 1901 passing, her family members, along with others in the Royal House, scrambled to destroy all traces of her closeness to Karim.

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  4. Queen Victoria learned Urdu, she wanted her mango and she stood by Abdul Karim. It sounds like a fantasy, but it isn’t.” What is important, Basu feels, is for Karim’s story to finally be told.

  5. 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 death in...

  6. Sep 20, 2017 · Queen Victoria’s unusually close friendship with her Indian servant began at the 1887 celebration and spanned 14 years, a period captured in the new movie Victoria & Abdul, starring Judi Dench as...

  7. Abdul-Karim Qasim Muhammad Bakr al-Fadhli al-Zubaidi (Arabic: عبد الكريم قاسم ʿAbd al-Karīm Qāsim [ʕabdulkariːm qɑːsɪm]; 21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963) was an Iraqi military officer and nationalist who came to power in 1958 when the Iraqi monarchy was overthrown during the 14 July Revolution.

  8. Mar 27, 2019 · Queen Victoria’s companion Abdul Karim had been forgotten for more than 100 years when Shrabani Basu, an English journalist who had heard of him only in passing for an unrelated book project, spotted his portrait.

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