{"id":711983,"date":"2026-07-26T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711983\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:49:09","slug":"the-indian-king-who-was-not-allowed-to-leave-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711983\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indian king who was not allowed to leave Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Singh&#8217;s arrival in Britain in the 1850s demonstrated how far back Punjabi history went in this country, Bance said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple had six children and Bance said his favourite princess was Catherine (1871-1942).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Her story was largely untold,&#8221; said the 52-year-old, speaking to the BBC as South Asian Heritage Month enters its final week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She saved all these Jewish families who were taken to concentration camps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She helped people not from her faith, not from her background, not from her heritage, they were total strangers to her. It was just pure humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He continued: &#8220;I really wanted to know more about these children because I can relate to them as a child of immigrants myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I grew up here [in England] and I was born here, so I wanted to know about these mixed race children because they were ethnically Punjabi &#8211; but they grew up here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singh&#8217;s arrival in Britain in the 1850s demonstrated how far back Punjabi history went in this country, Bance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}