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Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears.
History’s impossible friendship—that is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearest companion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim.
In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo great loves—Prince Albert and John Brown—Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The 2 form an not going bond and inside of a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen’s teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a family member with regards to her heart. This marked the start of probably the most scandalous decade in Queen Victoria’s long reign. As the royal household roiled with resentment, Victoria and Abdul’s devotion grew in defiance. Drawn from secrets closely guarded for more than a century, Victoria & Abdul is an ordinary and intimate history of the last years of the nineteenth-century English court and an unforgettable view onto the passions of an aging Queen.