Anita Arnott
speaker
400 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 27 May
Anita Arnott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A mother, a woman is in charge in the form of little Maharaja Dilip Singh's mother as the regent.
and a tiny boy, they then decide to attack.
There are two Anglo-Sikh wars.
Now, again, too much to go into right now, but it is absolutely the contention of the Sikhs that the Sikh empire was defeated because of skullduggery.
Because, you know, these Brits who came as friends, who promised to be friends and came and signed treaties, were in fact all the time...
And take this little boy.
Well, take the little boy and take the mother away from the boy and lock her in a tower and surround the little boy with men in shiny epaulettes who don't even speak the same language.
10 minutes walk or about half an hour John Logan's receipt I have seen a copy of it but you've seen the actual thing handed over to Dalhousie and it's sitting still in a country house in East Lothian you can't actually say Dalhousie without saying boo huge villain of this piece boo anyway so look the diamond is then transferred this little boy is forced to sign this document which he will spend the rest of his life
challenging saying you know what I was I was not in the age of majority how can this be a legal document you promised that you were my friend but you've taken everything this is the Queen Victoria you've taken everything from me this is this isn't right this isn't justice and I'll sue you in the courts and he tries doesn't get him very far but anyway
The diamond is then rushed out of the country to Queen Victoria by this man Dalhousie who thinks, what a coup it will be for me to lay the great mythical mountain of light at the feet of the Empress of India.
I mean, it basically almost sinks the ship.
and causes cholera and despair on the voyage over.
Wipes out the crew.
And then as soon as it gets in, people are beaten up.
Not just the people, the Queen is beaten up.
Well, she's not the only one.
Peel gets crushed.
The former Prime Minister gets crushed under his horse.
And the Queen, Queen Victoria, is handed the diamond with a massive shiner of a black eye because she's been attacked just the day before.
As soon as it enters British territorial waters.
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