The new exhibition will open at Kensington Palace on the 26th March 2026.
It has been announced that Kensington Palace will present an exhibition that will allow visitors to explore the story of Punjabi princess and suffragette icon, Sophia Duleep Singh and five women who shaped her life.
The show will reveal how Sophia and her sisters Catherine and Bamba, her mother Bamba Muller, grandmother Jind Kaur and godmother Queen Victoria each expressed womanhood, power, and royalty in different ways. It will offer an intimate look into six lives shaped by Empire and has been timed to celebrate Sophia’s 150th birthday.
It will feature numerous items which illustrate the stories of these five women and their relationships with Queen Victoria, the Empire, and each other.
Highlights of the display will include: an original 1913 copy of The Suffragette newspaper, featuring an image of Sophia selling copies of the newspaper on the gate of Hampton Court Palace, the grace and favour residence gifted by her godmother, Queen Victoria.
Visitors will also be able to see Sophia’s spoiled 1911 census record, defiantly scrawled with ‘No Vote, No Census’, as well as a photograph of her and her sister, Catherine, attending a Suffrage dinner in Manchester in 1930.
Finally, the exhibition will also spotlight the voice of British South Asian women today, who have created responses to themes that occur in The Last Princesses of the Punjab, exploring the continued legacy of the British Empire.
Tickets to the exhibition are included as part of the access to Kensington Palace.