Victoria and Abdul

About this book

The tall handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria s Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail he suddenly found himself a personal attendant to the Empress of India herself. Within a year he was established as a powerful figure at court becoming the queen s teacher or Munshi and instructing her in Urdu and Indian affairs. Devastated by the death of John Brown her Scottish gillie the queen had at last found his replacement.