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Princes Catherine Duleep Singh Pop Up Display


  • THE ANCIENT HOUSE MUSEUM THETFORD (map)

Saturday 1 to 8 October 2022 (closed Sunday and Monday)

10am to 4pm

Included with museum admission

https://norfolk-museums.arttickets.org.uk/ancient-house/2022-10-01-ancient-house-

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Find out about the amazing life of Princess Catherine Duleep Singh in this pop up

display. Her father was Maharajah Duleep Singh, the last Maharajah of Punjab and

her mother, Maharani Bamba was the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman from

Ethiopia. Princess Catherine the second daughter of Maharajah Duleep Singh, was a

suffragist, a member of the LBGT community and during the Second World War

helped save many Jewish families from Nazi Germany. She is regarded as the

‘Indian Schindler’. See the specially commissioned, new and exciting portrait by

Inkquisitive of the Princess too.