William Dalrymple
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Oh, no.
Which used to belong to my mother's family, the Keppels, before he bought it.
Not a Dalrymple, a Keppel.
So there are these wonderful photographs of these kids.
There's Victor, the eldest, who will go to Sandhurst to inherit the title.
Frederick, known to the family as Freddy, who will go to Cambridge and become an antiquarian, improbably.
And then there's Albert Edward, who she calls Eddie.
And then there's three extraordinary women, Bamba, Catherine and Sophia.
As so often the case, Anita.
I'm glad you can see that point.
During a heatwave.
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.
He's not someone who we would have liked on this podcast.
And he's aware, isn't he, that they've taken this incredibly rich kingdom, the richest land in India was his.
And now he's having to write for every fiver he wants to put on the horses at Newmarket.
And in 1886, he finally starts, doesn't he?
He packs up with his wife and children and he tries to go back to India.
to raise the flag.
He tries to reconvert Sikhism.
And he has a plan, which the British get onto, that he's going to ferment a revolution in India.