In November 1910, a woman of royal blood stood amidst a sea of protesters in London’s Parliament Square, prepared to face the blunt force of the British state. She was not a typical demonstrator; she was Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, the goddaughter of Queen Victoria and the daughter of the last Maharaja of the Sikh […]

In the autumn of 1910, the streets of London witnessed a scene of unprecedented state-sponsored violence that would forever alter the course of the British women’s suffrage movement. Among the hundreds of women marching toward Parliament Square was a figure who, by all accounts of the era’s social hierarchy, should have been a pillar of […]