The Queen received Indian servants to mark her Golden Jubilee year. She promoted one, Abdul Karim, to become her personal teacher or ‘Munshi’. Karim instructed Victoria in Urdu and Indian ...

John Brown, the well-known personal attendant of Queen Victoria, died at Windsor Castle yesterday at the age of 56, after passing 34 years in the service of her Majesty and the late Prince Consort.

Victoria was the teen queen who went on to have the longest ... They had children, they were public servants – they were a model of bourgeois virtue, role models," the historian adds.

They would be forced, as the chief civil servant ... to the Queen, who told him "it would never do." Still, he went personally to the War Office, and received a staff assignment. Victoria warned ...

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