The heartbreaking story of love and friendship that hides the new home of Meghan and Harry

November 28, 2018

The pair of Dukes of Susbad will move to Frogmore Cottage, a ten-room residence that is meticulously transformed to meet all your requirements. Its walls hide a clandestine story between a queen and her Indian employee who never accepted the crown.

Frogmore Cottage This is the place chosen by the Prince Harry and his wife Meghan reside and raise your baby. The place also has a nursery, a private gym and a yoga studio, which will be used by the wedding of the Dukes of Susbad.

However, the residence also keeps a story of love and secrecy that royalty wants to forget. Everything happened under the reign of Victoria I of England, the British monarch between 1837 and 1901. The era that lasted his reign is known as the Victorian Era and is generally defined as a deeply conservative and moralistic period that, like all stories, usually has its secrets.

His full name was Alejandrina Victoria; was born on May 24, 1819 and his parents were EduardoDuke of Kent (son of King George III) and princess Maria Luisa of Saxe-Coburg. Her father died in 1820 when she was barely a year old. Her education was thus entrusted to her mother, who constantly watched her to keep her away from the court environment. Although his father was the fourth son of Jorge III, the death of his uncles Jorge IV and Guillermo IV allowed Victoria to accede to the throne in 1837when he was only eighteen years old.

Hidden Frogmore Cottage a story that has been recreated in countless British films: the one that Queen Victoria kept with her Former Indian employee, Abdul Karim. The relationship of the two was so controversial at the time that, after the death of the queen, all traces of her "intimate friend" were removed. The rejection of the relationship was so strong that after Victoria's death, the written letters were burned and he was forced to see him before his deportation to his home country.

Victoria meets Abdul in 1887, at the age of 50. and he returned from one of his many trips to one of the British colonies, India. The place fascinated him in such a way that He brought with him two Indian employees to continue to know their culture. They thought that one of them was AbdulThey thought well. Abdul taught in Urdu, in a few weeks, the language of Pakistan and India and rose from servant of the palace to personal servant, thus becoming the intimate friend of the ruler and generating panic in the kingship, reaching such a point They tried to get a court doctor to check that Victoria did not have a cool head.

Despite the refusal of all, the queen continued to deepen their relationshipwhich became so intense that, in an attempt to keep it even closer, the sovereign granted her "friend" the titles of private Indian secretary and companion of the Indian empire. Their friendship was lived in secret in Frogmore Cottage, where the queen attended every afternoon to be with him. Years after the beginning of their relationship, Abdul's name appeared in the court's circular, which contained the real commitments, and his portrait was even painted officially.

However, the days of Abdul at court were coming to an end. When Queen Victoria dies, Edward VII banishes him and made Frogmore a more traditional home, ordering all the furniture in the house to be changed to hide the history of its walls. The romance was featured on the big screen in 2017 in the movie "Queen Victoria and Abdul", directed by Stephen Frears, who plunged into the media scandal that involved this case.