HH Crown Prince Victor Duleep Singh (1866-1918)

By 1861, Hockwold Hall was no longer the main residence of the Newcome family. Prince Victor, godson of Queen Victoria, and the son of the last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire and his brother, Prince Frederick (1868-1926), came to live at Hockwold in 1894, shortly after the death of their father. Maharajah Duleep Singh had lived at Elveden from 1863 till his death in 1893, when it was sold to pay his debts. The Princes’ mother was Bamba, daughter of Ludwig Müller, a German merchant banker and Sofia, his Abyssinian mistress. The Maharajah met Bamba in Cairo and they were married in Alexandria in 1864.