Digital Rare Book :
Lady Lena Campbell Login's Recollections - Court life and Camp life : 1820-1904.
By Edith Dalhousie Login
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London - 1916
THE PRINCESS VICTORIA GOURAMMA
"MY husband found that as, according to native ideas, Duleep Singh was already of marriageable age when he first came under his care, it behoved him to lose no time in setting on foot enquiries for a suitable partie for his ward.
In June, 1850, he heard of a native Princess who appeared to be just the very thing he was seeking. The ex-Rajah of Coorg, who since his deposition had been residing at Benares (even then a sort of head-
quarters for political prisoners of rank), had two or three daughters, one of whom the child of his favourite wife, now dead he was especially devoted to ; and as he was a great admirer of English manners and ways of living, and had complete control over the child's upbringing, she being motherless, he had asked for and obtained permission to send her to England for her education."
Most fascinating ! Read Book Online : http://www.archive.org/stream/ladyloginsrecoll00logirich#page/148/mode/2up
OMG! Ethnic chic..deluxe..royale!!
What a coincidence ! Today's Deccan Herald - Spectrum carries a feature article: In search of Kodagu’s lost princess by Mr. C.P. Belliappa. Belliappa is the author of the book ‘Victoria Gowramma: The Lost Princess of Coorg’, on the extraordinary life of the Coorg princess. Read: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/163584/in-search-kodagus-lost-princess.html
Her sister was married to Sri Teen Maharaja Jung Bahadur of Nepal.
As you say, fascinating. (I am now in danger of missing a train, having opened this up, begun reading, and an hour has passed by unnoticed!)