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Black and Asian British aristocrats, or a family you may not have known about.
A lot of people know the Duleep Singh family was Indian--they were descended from the deposed ruler of the Sikhs--but Duleep Singh, after his deposition as a child and forcible move to England, married an Ethiopian-German woman, Bamba Muller.
Therefore his five children with her were part-Ethiopian as well as part-Indian, although they emphasized their Indian heritage more bc a) royalty and b) Bamba grew up in among missionaries in Egypt, speaking primarily Arabic, idk how connected she was to her Ethiopian roots.
Here's a picture of Bamba Muller, whose marriage to Duleep Singh was unhappy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamba_M%C3%BCller#/media/File:Maharanee_Duleep_Singh.jpg
However, this marriage produced five children, one of whom (Victor) would marry into the British aristocracy (not without opposition). Unfortunately Victor was a gambler and left his wife in debt upon his untimely death.
His sisters were more interesting: Sophia became a prominent suffragette, engaging in tax resistance and selling the suffragette newspaper outside Hampton Court palace
Bamba junior, unhappy in England and also thwarted in her dream of becoming a doctor when her medical school ended the women's course, moved to India, the land of her paternal ancestors.
Catherine Duleep Singh was queer, fell in love with her German governess, and moved to Germany where she lived until the death of her partner and the rise of the Nazis.
Frederick was probably the most conventional of the siblings, a strong English conservative royalist despite his background, who served in WWI. By many accounts he held the siblings together, however.
There were two other siblings: Pauline and Ada, but as they were descended from Duleep Singh's second wife, Englishwoman Ada Wetherill, they did not have Bamba's Ethiopian heritage.
Pauline married an officer who died in WWI and later died of TB while living in France; her sister Ada Irene died by suicide in Monaco.
Though several of the seven siblings who survived married, none had children, and the family died out. But you can read about them in Anita Anand's SOPHIA, a biography of the suffragette sister.
*who survived childhood.
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