Social Victorians/People/Duleep Singh

Also Known As

 * Family name: Duleep Singh
 * His Highness Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh (the father)
 * Sir Dalip Singh (the father)
 * Black Prince of Perthshire (the father)
 * Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (the son)

Acquaintances

 * The father may have met Madame Helena Blavatsky, or at least her "Master Morya" (c. 1854).

Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, the Father

 * Queen Victoria
 * Prince Albert
 * Sir John Spencer and Lady Login, although he may not have had any choice about their relationship

Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, the Son

 * Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (for the son)

Organizations

 * Freemasons (the father)

Timeline
1843 September 16, Duleep Singh became Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, with his mother as regent.

1854, Duleep Singh was exiled to the U.K.

1861, Duleep Singh was admitted to a Freemason Lodge.

1861 January 16, Duleep Singh went to Calcutta, saw his mother after many years, and returned to England with her, after which she told him about his Sikh and royal heritage.

1864 June 17, Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh and Maharani Bamba Müller married in the British Consulate in Alexandra, Egypt.

1886 March 13, Prince Duleep Singh tried to escape to India.

1889, Prince Duleep Singh married Ada Douglas Wetherill, with whom he had been living in Paris.

1894, Bamba Sophia Jindan Duleep Singh and Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh were presented to Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace.

1897 July 2, Friday, Prince Victor Duleep Singh attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1898, Queen Victorian granted her god-daughters Bamba, Catherine and Sophia Singh "a grace and favor apartment in Faraday House, Hampton Court."

1898 January 4, Prince Victor Duleep Singh and Lady Anne Blanche Alice Coventry married.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (at 558) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Alexander Bassano's portrait of "Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh as Akbar" in costume is photogravure #70 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "H. H. Prince Victor Duleep Singh as Akbar."

Akbar is probably Muslim philosopher and political and religious leader Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), or Akbar the Great, third Mughal emperor. The Mughal (or Moghul) empire corresponded roughly to what is today India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Akbar's mother was Persian. The picture on the right is from 1573.

Questions and Notes

 * 1) He was set up to rule at the age of 5, with his mother as regent, but he was kidnapped by the British and taken to England. He converted to Christianity before he was 15 and regretted it later.
 * 2) The Koh-I-Nor diamond had been his.

Nationality

 * Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, the father: what was then Sikh Empire, now Punjabi, then England
 * Maharani Bamba, Lady Duleep Singh (Bamba Müller), Egyptian mother, German father; then England

Family

 * Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (6 September 1838 – 22 October 1893)
 * Maharani Bamba, Lady Duleep Singh (born Bamba Müller; 6 July 1848 – 18 September 1887)
 * 1) Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (10 January 1866 – 7 June 1918)
 * 2) Frederick Duleep Singh (23 January 1868 – 15 August 1926)
 * 3) Bamba Sophia Jindan Duleep Singh (29 September 1869 – 10 March 1957)
 * 4) Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh (27 October 1871 – 8 November 1942)
 * 5) Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh (8 August 1876 – 22 August 1948)
 * 6) Prince Edward Albert Duleep Singh (1879 – 1 May 1893)
 * Ada Douglas Wetherill
 * 1) Princess Pauline Alexandra Duleep Singh (26 December 1887 – 10 April 1941)
 * 2) Princess Ada Irene Beryl Duleep Singh (25 October 1889 – 14 September 1926)


 * Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (10 January 1866– 7 June 1918)
 * Lady Anne Blanche Alice Coventry (27 January 1874 – 2 July 1956)

Notes and Questions

 * 1) Which supper seating was Duleep Singh in?