Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

William Dalrymple

πŸ‘€ Speaker
170 total appearances
Voice ID

Voice Profile Active

This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.

Voice samples: 3
Confidence: High

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

Oh, no.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

Which used to belong to my mother's family, the Keppels, before he bought it.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

Not a Dalrymple, a Keppel.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

So there are these wonderful photographs of these kids.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

There's Victor, the eldest, who will go to Sandhurst to inherit the title.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

Frederick, known to the family as Freddy, who will go to Cambridge and become an antiquarian, improbably.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

And then there's Albert Edward, who she calls Eddie.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

And then there's three extraordinary women, Bamba, Catherine and Sophia.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

As so often the case, Anita.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

I'm glad you can see that point.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

During a heatwave.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

And Dulep, who is, in his youth, this beautiful boy that Queen Victoria falls in love with, who is painted by Winterhalter, one of the greatest portraits of the Raj, he turns into a bit of a monster, actually, by then.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

He's not someone who we would have liked on this podcast.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

And he's aware, isn't he, that they've taken this incredibly rich kingdom, the richest land in India was his.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

And now he's having to write for every fiver he wants to put on the horses at Newmarket.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

And in 1886, he finally starts, doesn't he?

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

He packs up with his wife and children and he tries to go back to India.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

to raise the flag.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

He tries to reconvert Sikhism.

Empire: World History
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1)

And he has a plan, which the British get onto, that he's going to ferment a revolution in India.