with a Council of Regency and later imprisoned and exiled her. Over thirteen years passed before Duleep Singh was permitted to see his mother again.

After the end of the Second Anglo-Sikh War and the subsequent annexation of the Punjab on 29 March 1849, he was deposed at the age of ten. Duleep Singh was instructed that he was allowed to live anywhere but Punjab and was given a 120,000 rupee (£50,000) pension per annum. His property worth 15 million rupees was dispossessed of him by the British,