“A vivid and compelling biography… Anand writes with the vigour and imaginative reach of a novelist”
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An Indian princess who became a suffragette in furs
A comprehensively researched and zippy account of a profoundly unusual life
Boyd Tonkin in The Independent
“Sometimes you hear biographers complain that all the great figures have gone. They must either revisit the over-documented giants of the past or else make do with vaguely interesting obscurities. In this book, her confident and compelling debut, the BBC journalist and presenter Anita Anand leaves that argument in shreds… Anand has triumphantly rescued Princess Sophia from the pampered oblivion in which a fearful Raj sought to bury her.”