Victoria and Abdul forged an unlikely and devoted alliance that the royal household and Victoria's inner circle tried to destroy. Shrabani Basu, who wrote and researched the remarkable story, said Abdul died a broken man a few years after being banished from England after Victoria's death in ...
The author Shrabani Basu discovered the documents after writing Victoria & Abdul, her book on the remarkable relationship between the Queen and her Indian servant. In 2010 Basu was in Bangalore, India, for the book’s launch when she received a call from the British Council. Begum Qamar Jehan...
1533-1603. Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 1558 until her death. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and the fifth and final monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
Did Freddie Mercury meet boyfriend Jim Hutton when Hutton was a servant at his party? No. A fact-check of theBohemian Rhapsodymovie reveals that Freddie Mercury's partner, Jim Hutton, had been a hairdresser in Ireland before moving to London, where he met Mercury at a nightclub. The movie...