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- The Queen, lonely and tired of her fawning courtiers, develops an interest in and then a friendship with Abdul. She spends time with him alone and gives him a bejewelled locket with her photograph. She promotes him to be her Munshi and asks him to teach her Urdu and the Quran. She in fact learns Urdu for 13 years. [ 4 ]
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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...
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...
Queen Victoria learned Urdu, she wanted her mango and she stood by Abdul Karim. It sounds like a fantasy, but it isn’t.” Victoria and Abdul is being shown on BBC2 on Saturday 11 April at...
- Sabrina Barr
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Sep 25, 2017 · Reid’s notes revealed that he detested the pair’s unconventional friendship. He described Victoria’s warmth towards Karim as “Munshi mania,” using a word that refers to native language teachers,...
- Kate Samuelson
Mar 14, 2011 · Previously undiscovered diaries show the intense relationship between Queen Victoria and the Indian man employed to be her teacher, writes the BBC's Alastair Lawson.
Dec 9, 2021 · Queen Victoria with her cherished friend Abdul. Though Victoria and Karim did spend a night alone at Glassat Shiel—the remote cottage in Scotland the queen had shared with John Brown—Basu does not think that the two, separated by decades in age, had a physical relationship.
The Queen, lonely and tired of her fawning courtiers, develops an interest in and then a friendship with Abdul. She spends time with him alone and gives him a bejewelled locket with her photograph. She promotes him to be her Munshi and asks him to teach her Urdu and the Quran. She in fact learns Urdu for 13 years. [ 4 ] .
