Sophia Duleep Singh | Suffragette Princess

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was a suffragette who devoted her life to fight tenaciously for women’s rights.

As daughter of the deposed Maharaja Duleep Singh, and goddaughter to Queen Victoria she started out as a socialite, but soon became a revolutionary.

In this mini-documentary Anita Anand explores the extraordinary life of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, who lived at Hampton Court Palace.

00:00 Who was Sophia Duleep Singh?
01:21 Who was Duleep Singh?
01:56 Sophia's childhood
04:11 Socialite and Party Princess
05:00 The Delhi Durbar 1903
06:51 Votes for Women
09:00 Black Friday
10:07 World War One
10:45 What is Sophia's legacy?

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Sophia Duleep Singh: Komal Amin
Narrator: Anita Anand
Director: Matt Oliver
Producer: Claudia Strange
Music: Will Stapleton
Image Credits:
Images throughout film © Peter Bance Archive
The Maharaja Duleep Singh by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2023
Portrait of Prime Minister Asquith by Reginald Haines © National Portrait Gallery, London
Video footage © KINOLIBRARY
Portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst and images of suffragettes © Museum of London,
Other images ©Alamy © Getty Images