(Download) Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant Writen By Shrabani Basu
Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
By : Shrabani Basu
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Book Synopsis :
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. Tall and handsome Abdul was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Within a year, Abdul had grown to become a powerful figure at court, the Queen's teacher, or Munshi, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a friend close to the Queen's heart. "I am so very fond of him.," Queen Victoria would write in 1888, "He is so good and gentle and understanding....a real comfort to me." This marked the beginning of the most scandalous decade in Queen Victoria's long reign. Devastated first by the death of Prince Albert in 1861 and then her personal servant John Brown in 1883, Queen Victoria quickly found joy in an intense and controversial relationship with her Munshi, who traveled everywhere with her, cooked her curries and cultivated her understanding of the Indian sub-continent--a region,
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Author : Shrabani Basu
Pages : 334 pages
Publisher : Vintage
Language :
ISBN-10 : 0525434410
ISBN-13 : 9780525434412
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