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Mohammed Abdul Karim CVO CIE (1863 — 20 April 1909), also known as "the Munshi", was an Indian attendant of Queen Victoria. He served her during the final fourteen years of her reign, gaining her maternal affection over that time.
Mar 27, 2019 · Indian servant Abdul Karim was treated by Queen Victoria as her equal and closest confidant. But racism had the court erase him from history. The Queen signed her letters to Karim "your closest friend," "your loving mother," and even fluffed his pillows for him before he went to sleep.
Mar 14, 2011 · Abdul Karim was one of Queen Victoria's closest confidants despite efforts by royal circles to suppress their relationship before and after her death
Dec 9, 2021 · The unusual friendship between the Queen and her Indian servant began in 1887 and spanned for 14 years. Mohammed Abdul Karim was born into a Muslim family at Lalitpur near Jhansi in 1863. He was taught Persian and Urdu privately and, as a teenager, traveled across North India and into Afghanistan.
Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant is a book about Queen Victoria and her Munshi Abdul Karim, researched and written by Shrabani Basu, published by The History Press in 2010, and adapted to produce the feature film Victoria & Abdul in 2017.
Sep 20, 2017 · Queen Victoria’s unusually close friendship with her Indian servant began at the 1887 celebration and spanned 14 years, a period captured in the new movie Victoria & Abdul, starring Judi Dench ...
Jun 1, 2017 · GQ covers the untold story of Queen Victoria's friendship with Indian servant Abdul Karim, the ‘Munshi’ & her confidant in the movie Victoria & Abdul. Read Now.
Sep 21, 2017 · Even as a British-American comedy-drama directed by Stephen Frears (of Philomena and The Queen fame), titled Victoria & Abdul, releases in theatres worldwide, inviting the world to look at this speck of colonial history for the first time, the question continues to mystify: who was Abdul Karim?
Sep 22, 2017 · The tall, 24-year-old Karim came to London as part of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations in 1887. He soon caught the monarch’s eye, and she asked for him to be her personal...
We learn about the three most significant men in her long life – her husband Albert, her Scottish gillie John Brown and Abdul Karim himself, her Indian teacher and secretary.
