Once home to Maharaja Duleep’s son, UK mansion goes on sale for £15.5 million

A sprawling mansion in the heart of London, the former family home of Maharaja Duleep Singh’s son Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh, has gone on sale with a price tag of 15.5 million pounds.

Duleep Singh, Maharaja Ranjeet Singh’s youngest son, was the last Maharaja of the Sikh empire in the 19th century until he was exiled to England when his empire came under the British Raj.

His son, Prince Victor, was born in London in 1866 and was taken under the wing of Queen Victoria as his godmother.

Many years later when he caused a stir in English society with his mixed-race marriage to Lady Anne Coventry, the daughter of the 9th Earl of Coventry, the British authorities leased a “grace-and-favour” mansion in the Little Boltons area of south-west Kensington to the newly married couple.

Maharaja Duleep Singh, also known as His Highness Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh, GCSI, or Sir Dalip Singh and later in life nicknamed the "Black Prince of Perthshire", was the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. He was Maharaja Ranjit Singh's youngest son, the only child of Maharani Jind Kaur.