Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
 
Print available as:
A5 / 210 x 148mm
A4 / 297 x 210mm
 
Open edition print, signed in pencil.
 
Depicting Princess Sophia Alexandrovna Duleep Singh (1876 - 1948) Prominent suffragette, daughter of the exiled Maharaja Duleep Singh (last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire) and god-daughter to Queen Victoria. Read more about her incredible story on the blog.
 
Ready to be mounted and framed, each print is accompanied by a short bio and posted with a protective greyboard backing in a bio-degradable sleeve, in a hard-backed envelope.
 
Sophia is also available as a Coaster, Greetings Card, Embroidery Kit and Pin Badge, and features in the Up the Women Collection.
 
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Princess Sophia Alexandrovna Duleep Singh (1876 - 1948) Prominent suffragette, daughter of the exiled Maharaja Duleep Singh (last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire) and goddaughter to Queen Victoria.

In 1909, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) & became a leading member; funding suffragette groups and selling a suffragette newspaper outside Hampton Court Palace where she lived in a grace and favour apartment. She frustrated the government by refusing to pay taxes and authorised an auction of her belongings, with proceeds benefiting the Women's Tax Resistance League.

During WWI She volunteered as a British Red Cross VAD nurse, serving at an auxiliary military hospital in Isleworth. She tended wounded Indian soldiers who had been evacuated from the Western Front. She is featured in the Royal Mail's commemorative stamp set "Votes for Women", issued in February 2018.