 Victoria took a great liking to Karim and ordered that he was to be given additional tuition in the English language . By February 1888 he had " learnt English wonderfully " according to Victoria . After he complained to the Queen that he had been a clerk in India and thus menial work as a waiter was beneath him , he was promoted to the position of " Munshi " in August 1888 . In her journal , the Queen writes that she made this change so that he would stay : " I particularly wish to retain his services as he helps me in studying Hindustani , which interests me very much , & he is very intelligent & useful . " Photographs of him waiting at table were destroyed and he became the first personal Indian clerk to the Queen . Buksh remained in the Queen 's service , but only as a <unk> or table servant , until his death at Windsor in 1899 . 
