"charges of sedition" turned Sophia against the British Raj. In 1909 her brother bought Blo' Norton Hall in South Norfolk for himself and a house in Blo' Norton, Thatched Cottage, for his sisters. That year, Sophia attended a farewell party at the Westminster Palace Hotel for Mahatma Gandhi. Bamba Duleep Singh, Sophia's oldest sister, married DrColonel Sutherland, principal of King Edward's Medical College in Lahore. They had no children. Later life and activism After Singh returned from India in 1909, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) at the behest of Una Dugdale, a friend of the Pankhurst sisters; Emmeline Pankhurst had co-founded the Women's Franchise League in 1889. In 1909 Singh was a leading member of the movement for women's voting rights, funding suffragette groups and leading the cause. An example of her support to the Women's Social and Political Union was her loan of a trap for the work of the Kingston and District branch. She also contributed towards fundraising efforts, which as self-denial weeks, where supporters would deprive themselves of luxuries and give the money saved to their chosen organisation. She refused to pay taxes, frustrating the government. King George V asked in exasperation, "Have we no hold on her?" Although as a British subject Singh's primary interest was women's rights in England, she and her fellow suffragettes also promoted similar activities in the colonies. She valued her Indian heritage, but was not bound by allegiance to a single nation and supported the women's cause in a number of countries. Her title, Princess, was useful. Singh sold a suffragette newspaper outside Hampton Court Palace, where Queen Victoria had allowed her family to live. According to a letter from Lord Crewe, King George V was within his rights to have her evicted. Singh, Emmeline Pankhurst and a group of activists went to the House of Commons on 18 November 1910, hoping for a meeting with the Prime Minister. The Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, ordered their expulsion. Churchill's refusal to meet with the group paired with the government's lack of response on the Conciliation Bill caused a protest with around 300 women. Many of the women were seriously injured during this demonstration, with reports of police brutality. The incident became known as Black Friday. At first, Singh kept a low profile; in 1911 she was reluctant to make speeches in public or at Women's Social and Political