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Victoria & Abdul is a 2017 British biographical historical drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Lee Hall.The film is based on the book Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant by Shrabani Basu, about the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her Indian Muslim servant Abdul Karim. [4]
Victoria & Abdul was first published in 2010, then in 2011 and 2017, by The History Press, based in Gloucester.The book has 334 pages, beginning with a contents page, author's note, acknowledgements, a forward, a diagram of Queen Victoria's family tree, a mid-19th century map of British India territories, a map of the United Kingdom showing the locations of the Queen's palaces, and a dramatis ...
In the 1990s, during her research on the Curry: The Story of Britain's Favourite Dish, she came across the story of Abdul Karim.After carrying out historical research on the subject, using the Queen's own Urdu diaries and her physician, Sir James Reid's diaries, she wrote Victoria & Abdul, a book based on the friendship between Queen Victoria and Karim.
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Victoria & Abdul (2017) – British biographical comedy drama film about the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her Muslim servant Abdul Karim [164] War Machine (2017) – satirical war comedy film depicting a fictionalized version of events surrounding General Stanley A. McChrystal in Afghanistan [165]
Victoria Preminger, daughter of director Otto Preminger, died Feb. 7 in Studio City, Calif. following a fall at home. She was 63. Her mother was actress Hope Bryce Preminger and her uncle was film ...
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Mohammed Abdul Karim (1863 — 20 April 1909), also known as "the Munshi", was an Indian attendant of Queen Victoria. He served her during the final fourteen years of her reign, gaining her maternal affection over that time.