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    Aug 04, 2022 5 minutes
    By Jonathan Wright, Samantha Nott and Jonny Wilkes

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    Victorian attitudes

    It was a society wedding that caused a sensation. On 4 January 1898, Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (1866–1918), the son of Sir Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of Lahore, married Lady Anne Coventry (18741956), the Earl of Coventry’s daughter, at St Peter’s Church in Belgravia.zz

    It was the first time an Indian prince had married an English noblewoman, and Queen Victoria, who was represented at the service, gave the couple her blessing.

    However, as and director Gurinder Chadha explores in a new documentary, this was by no means a story of the British establishment showing enlightened attitudes. It’s said that Victoria personally told Lady Coventry never to have children with the prince, and the marriage was childless –

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