Portrait of Princesses Sophia, Catherine and Bamba Duleep Singh as debutantes 1895. | Peter Bance Collection “They were different from everyone else.”That’s how Peter Barrall remembers the Anglo-Indian princesses Sophia and Bamba when they visited Walnut Tree Cottage in Blo’ Norton, a tiny village in the sandy heathlands of Norfolk.It was 1939. After the outbreak of World War II, Barrall – then six – had been evacuated from his school in London to the estate owned by the daughters of Duleep Singh, the last ruler of the Sikh empire and last Indian owner of the Koh-i-Noor diamond.Barrall, now 92, remembers...
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