This made Victoria all the more fond of her. Like her mother, she often fell into depression, and she was quiet and shy. Sophia, born in 1876, was the youngest of the five who survived. Duleep Singh had married the sheltered daughter of a German merchant and his Ethiopian slave mistress she had six children in 10 years and was prone to depression. The more he heard no, the more he agitated publicly that he was owed more, saying the Punjab had been taken from him. But he went through his fortune, indulging in gambling and women, and began decades of appeals to England’s India Office for more funds. Duleep Singh did well in England at first, a bon vivant and popular host at a grand country house remodeled Indian-style. Victoria adored him, bestowing him with a comfortable annual allowance that later would prove to be not enough. Maharajah Duleep Singh converted to Christianity and moved to England in his teens.
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