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Princess Catherine Duleep Singh Pop Up Display


  • Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life White Hart Street, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 1AA (map)

Book tickets

T: 01842 752599

Saturday 1 to 8 October 2022 (closed Sunday and Monday)

10am to 4pm

Included with museum admission

Find out about the amazing life of Princess Catherine Duleep Singh in this pop up display. Her father was Maharajah Duleep Singh, the last Maharajah of Punjab and her mother, Maharani Bamba was the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman from Ethiopia. Princess Catherine the second daughter of Maharajah Duleep Singh, was a suffragist, a member of the LBGT community and during the Second World War helped save many Jewish families from Nazi Germany. She is regarded as the ‘Indian Schindler’. See the specially commissioned, new and exciting portrait by Inkquisitive of the Princess too.