As Hindus and Muslims rioted in the streets of Agra, the women and children were sent in the dead of night to Bhopal in central India, where the nawab was a friend. From Bhopal they took the train to Bombay the women hiding their jewellery in their saris and finally an overcrowded ship to Karachi, joining the thousands of refugees leaving for Pakistan.
Two trunks full of precious artefacts were sent on the goods train to Pakistan. The train was looted and the treasures never arrived. The diary, some pictures and artefacts including the tea set gifted by the Tsar of Russia and a statuette of Abdul Karim did make it, carried on the boat by the men of the family. Perhaps they were written by his friend Rafiuddin Ahmed. The diaries make no mention of the unpleasantness he suffered in court, almost as if he wanted to cauterise those details.
In the distance, the ships in the Solent bobbed silently, their flags at half-mast. Victoria is located thirty miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico. The city is a regional hub for a seven-county area known as the 'Golden Crescent' and serves a retail trade area of over , people. The eighty-one-year-old Victoria had died peacefully in her sleep three days earlier, her family beside her.
She was now dressed according to her wishes for this final journey to Windsor. The Royal family had been summoned to say their last farewells. The Queen lay in her coffin, her face covered by her white wedding veil. A bunch of white lilies was placed in her hand. Each stood for a few moments before the coffin of the woman who had ascended the throne at the age of eighteen and proceeded to define an age.
He would be the last person to see her body alone. The Munshi entered, his head bowed, dressed in a dark Indian tunic and turban. His presence filled the room. She had given him — a humble servant — more than a decade of unquestioned love and respect. His thoughts raced through the years spent in her company: their first meeting when he had stooped to kiss her feet at Windsor in the summer of ; the lazy days spent together as he taught her his language and described his country; the gossip and companionship they shared; her generosity to him; her loneliness that he understood.
Above all, her stubborn defence of him at all times. He touched his hand to his heart and stood silently, fighting back tears. His lips mouthed a silent prayer to Allah to rest her soul. At her funeral procession in Windsor, Abdul Karim walked with the principal mourners.
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