Queen Victoria's Last Love Page #3
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- 2012
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because he would follow her carriage
in his own carriage.
And it was said, in France,
for example,
that he was a captured Indian prince
that she paraded around
just to show the might
of the British Empire.
But not everybody was so taken
with the Palace new boy.
Abdul had landed in a world
governed by strict codes
of class and protocol.
At the top of the court hierarchy
were the ladies and gentlemen
of the royal household.
When Abdul arrived
at the English court,
it was like entering a labyrinth,
with layers and layers of people
going out and out and out.
At the heart of it
are the lords and ladies in waiting.
These are aristocrats,
then you get the actual servants
who do the cooking and cleaning.
So the idea that somebody who's
a servant, who is an outsider,
who has none of this pedigree,
none of this background,
can suddenly leapfrog
into a position
of great closeness to the Queen
is something that they find,
well, not only threatening,
but wrong.
Abdul soon found himself at odds
with the royal household,
led by the Queen's Private
Secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby,
and Her Majesty's doctor,
Sir James Reid.
The household had never been used
to Indian servants,
and, um,
they really didn't like it.
Sir James had to deal
with them medically,
but there was much more to it
than that,
because the Queen was obsessed
She was always worrying,
and Sir James had to have special
tweeds made for them,
but they had to be in Indian styles,
because she wanted them
to look exotic.
She gave Henry Ponsonby
a dictionary,
which I can just see
his wry face, you know,
to the family and saying,
"Oh, she's given me a...
"Imagine, she's given me
a Hindustani dictionary,
"and I've got to learn Urdu now. "
Had Abdul just been pleased,
or happy with his position
as a khitmagar,
which is a waiter at table,
and all that,
they mightn't have minded so much.
But it was that he was getting
special treatment.
The Palace simmered with quiet rage
over the servant
who didn't know his place.
But the discontent
was about to boil over
into an unprecedented civil war
between the Queen and her own court.
Christmas, 1887.
At Osborne House, the Queen's staff
and family were looking forward
to the traditional highlight
of the festive season.
There is this rather strange form of
Victorian house party entertainment.
I think it's a shame that it's
fallen by the wayside - the tableau.
What you do is that you get all your
unwilling family and friends,
you get them to dress up,
you build your own scenery.
But it doesn't really matter
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