Why was sophia duleep singh forgotten

Sophia grew up in the family's home in Suffolk but had a tumultuous childhood, Anand writes. Duleep Singh was exiled to France in 1886 after failed attempts to reclaim his throne, and abandoned his family to debt.

But the family's close relationship with Queen Victoria helped them secure a home and yearly allowance from the India Office, a department of the British government.

When Sophia grew up, she was given a grace-and-favour apartment by the queen in the Hampton Court Palace, outside which she would later go on to protest for the right to vote.

"From an early age, [Sophia] learned to negotiate between the easy existence granted to her as a member of Britain's elite and her ambiguous position as an Indian woman living in Britain during the heyday of the British Empire," historian Elizabeth Baker writes in a chapter in the book The British Women's Suffrage Campaign.

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