Sprawling London mansion of Maharaja Duleep Singh’s son goes on sale for 15.5 million pounds

By Aditi Khanna ;

LONDON,

A SPRAWLING mansion in the heart of London which was the former family home of Maharaja Duleep Singh’s son, Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, has gone on sale with a price tag of 15.5 million pounds. Duleep Singh, as Maharaja Ranjeet Singh’s youngest son, was the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire including Lahore in the 19th century until he was exiled to England when his empire came under the British Raj. His son, Prince Victor, was born in London in 1866 and was taken under the wing of Queen Victoria as his godmother.

Many years later when he caused a stir in English society with his mixed-race marriage to Lady Anne Coventry, the daughter of the 9th Earl of Coventry, the British authorities leased a “grace-and-favour” mansion in The Little Boltons area of south-west Kensington to the newly married couple as their new marital home.

“This substantial former grace-and-favour home of the exiled Crown Prince of Lahore has been designed to provide excellent proportions and benefits from high ceilings, large living spaces and a 52 ft rear garden,” said Jeremy Gee, Managing Director of Beauchamp Estates. “It is located in one of south-west Kensington’s most sought after residential addresses,” he said.