Sophia Duleep Singh

British suffragist (1876 – 1948)

Sophia Duleep Singh
. Princess Sophia Alexandrovna Duleep Singh ( sə-FY-ə; 8 August 1876 – 22 August 1948) was a prominent suffragette in the United Kingdom. Her father was Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh, who had lost his Sikh Empire to the Punjab Province of British India and was subsequently exiled to England. Sophia's mother was Bamba Müller, who was half German and half Ethiopian, and her godmother was Queen Victoria. She had four sisters, including two half-sisters, and three brothers. She lived at Hampton Court Palace in an apartment in Faraday House given to her by Queen Victoria as a grace-and-favour home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Duleep_Singh

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