The Duleep Singh

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The Duleep SinghsThe Photograph album of Queen Victoria’s Maharajah.At the age of eleven, Maharajah Duleep Singh, ruler of the Punjab and owner of the famous Koh-I-Noor diamond, was removed from his kingdom by the British East India Company after the Anglo Sikh Wars and exiled to Britain.There he combined the extravagant lifestyle of an Indian prince redesigning his Suffolk residence Elveden Hall in style of a Mogul palace with the gratification of a young aristocrat.Associating with the cream of Victorian society he became a dilettante, wrote a West End play and was soon a notorious visitor to the sleazy hotels of Soho!!!!!!!