Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Bamba Müller NPG x1507

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Antoine Claudet

Maharani Bamba Duleep Singh (née Müller) was the illegitimate daughter of a German banker and his Abyssinian mistress who was a Coptic Christian slave. She was brought up and educated by Christian missionaries in Cairo, later becoming a teacher. Whilst teaching at the missionary and despite speaking only Arabic, she was encouraged to enter into a correspondence courtship with Maharaja Duleep Singh after he contacted the missionary in the hope of finding a Christian wife of eastern descent. After the couple were married in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.