A hospital assistant's son from Lalitpur who became Queen Victoria's closest companion in her final years - close enough that the palace burned their letters the moment she died.
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The Munshi in a painting by Laurits Tuxen, commissioned by Queen Victoria, 1887. Royal Collection.
Glas-allt-Shiel: Victoria's remote getaway on the Balmoral estate
Portrait by Heinrich von Angeli, 1890
Queen Victoria and an Indian attendant, 1893
Queen Victoria on holiday in Cimiez in the south of France, by Jean Baptiste Guth![The Munshi arranged to have this photograph of himself with the Queen at Balmoral published in the Diamond Jubilee issue of The Graphic, 1897.[103]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Queen_Victoria_and_Abdul_Karim.jpg/330px-Queen_Victoria_and_Abdul_Karim.jpg)
The Munshi arranged to have this photograph of himself with the Queen at Balmoral published in the Diamond Jubilee issue of The Graphic, 1897.[103]Awards 3
Connected to Abdul 6
George VAlso won Order of the Indian Empire
Ernest ShackletonAlso won Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl WavellAlso won Order of the Indian Empire
Khawaja NazimuddinAlso won Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron RothschildAlso won Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Edward VIIAlso won Order of the Indian EmpireAbout this person
Abdul Karim arrived at the British court in 1887, one of two Indians brought in for Victoria's Golden Jubilee. The Queen took to him quickly, naming him her Munshi and later her Indian Secretary, lavishing honours and securing him a land grant back home. The affection was maternal and platonic, but it grated against every layer of the household - attendants who thought themselves above an Indian servant now watched him travel everywhere at her side. When Victoria died in 1901, her son Edward VII moved fast: Karim was sent back to India, and every scrap of correspondence between him and the Queen was seized and destroyed. He lived out his remaining eight years on the estate Victoria had arranged, dying at 46 near Agra.
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