Strange Little Woman
Ferdinand Mount: First and Only Empress, 22 November 2018
Empress: Queen Victoria and India
by Miles Taylor.
Yale, 388 pp., £25, August 2018,978 0 300 11809 4 Show More
by Miles Taylor.
Yale, 388 pp., £25, August 2018,
Eastern Encounters: Four Centuries of Paintings and Manuscripts from the Indian Subcontinent
by Emily Hannam.
Royal Collections Trust, 256 pp., £45, June 2018,978 1 909741 45 4 Show More
by Emily Hannam.
Royal Collections Trust, 256 pp., £45, June 2018,
Splendours of the Subcontinent: A Prince’s Tour of India 1875-76
by Kajal Meghani.
Royal Collections Trust, 216 pp., £29.95, March 2017,978 1 909741 42 3 Show More
by Kajal Meghani.
Royal Collections Trust, 216 pp., £29.95, March 2017,
“... Fid. Def; Ind. Imp. Were there ever two more outrageous inscriptions on our coinage? Henry VIII remained defender of that particular faith for all of nine years, before Pope Leo X revoked the title he had himself conferred and excommunicated the defecting monarch. The claim was rebooted by a Protestant Parliament in 1544, but it was not quite the same, to say the least ... ”
