![]() By the time Sophia is about enter her teens her heartbroken mother is dead, her favourite younger brother Edward is dead and her father, having gone back to his life of debauchery, has left England with a barmaid and turned rebel against the Empire. From this union is born Sophia, the fifth of their six children and goddaughter to Queen Victoria of United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland and Empress of India. Bamba was left with missionaries in Cairo where Duleep Singh discovers her and marries her. A bride is found for him in Bamba - bastard child of a wealthy German merchant and an Abyssinian slave. He is a favourite of Queen Victoria and is often pardoned his excesses. ![]() ![]() ![]() Singh grows up to being a promiscuous idle nobleman with nothing better to do than live ostentatiously. Consider these points - when the teenager Duleep Singh's kingdom is taken over, he is sent to England and from that moment onwards, his life is dictated by the machinations of the British Empire and its colonial politics. ![]()
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