seven children from his marriage to Bamba. Their first child and male heir died aged one day in 1865. The others were: Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (10 Jan 1866-7 Jun 1918) Prince Frederick Victor Duleep Singh (23 Jan 1868-15 Aug 1926) Princess Bamba Sofia Jindan Duleep Singh (29 Sep 1869-10 Mar 1957) Princess Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh (27 Oct 1871-8 Nov 1942) Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh (8 Aug 1876-22 Aug 1948) Prince Albert Edward Alexander Duleep Singh (1879-1 May 1893) He also had two children from his marriage to Wetherill: Princess Pauline Alexandra Duleep Singh (26 Dec 1887-10 Apr 1941) Princess Ada Irene Beryl Duleep Singh (25 Oct 1889-14 Sep 1926) All the eight children died without legitimate issue, ending the direct line of the Sikh Royalty. There is a memorial at Eton College in England to Princes Victor and Frederick, Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh's two sons who studied at Eton in the 1870s. Maharani Bamba Müller Maharani Bamba Müller was an Arabic-speaking, part-Ethiopian, part-German woman, whose father was a German banker and whose mother was an Abyssinian Coptic Christian slave. She and Sir Duleep met in Cairo in 1863 on his return from scattering his mother's ashes in India; they were married in Alexandria, Egypt, on 7 June 1864. The Maharani died in London on 18 September 1887. Ada Douglas Wetherill Ada Douglas Wetherill (born 15 January 1869 in Kennington, Surrey, the daughter of a civil engineer) had been Duleep's mistress before he decided to return to India with his family, and upon being stopped in Aden by the British authorities he abandoned his family and moved to Paris, where she joined him. They married in Paris on 28 April 1889. She stayed with him through his years in Paris and also travelled with him to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he failed to persuade the Czar of the benefits of invading India through the north and reinstalling him as ruler. She died in Sussex on 6 August 1930. Queen Victoria and Maharaja Duleep Singh reconciled their differences before he died. Out of loyalty to Maharani Bamba, the Queen refused to receive Ada, whom she suspected had been involved with the Maharaja before Maharani Bamba's death in 1887. Miscellany In 1854, Madame Blavatsky, the founder of the Theosophical Society, met her Master Morya in England, who was in her words, "in the company of a dethroned native