Staying at Grand Hotel, Paris, in early 1890, the Maharaja received a stroke of paralysis affecting his left leg and side, and the left half of his face, Two of his three sons, Victor Dalip Singh and Frederick Dalip Singh joined him there, In the meantime, the Maharaja had two heart attacks but still he paid a short visit to Folk stone and, seeing his ailing son, Edwards Dalip Singh, he wept bitterly and loudly” and, on May 1,1893, at Hastings, he breathed his last and was laid’ beside his mother, Naharani Bomba, in Elveden Churchyard. The Maharaja, having returned to Paris, in a most critical condition Kidney trouble dropsically symptoms intense irritability of tem per, on Oct21, night, had an apoplectic fit and on the evening of Oct.22,1893, he breathed his last in Paris, far away from his motherland, all alone, and was laid at rest opposite the house at Elveden on Oct.29,1893 in the presence of his two Surviving sons, three daughters, Bomba Sofia Jindan (later Mrs. Dr, Sutherland Principal Medical College Lahore), Sophia Alexandra and Catherine Hilda, and others, The Plate on the coffin lid told a Brief story of Birth and Death
Duleep Singh GCST
Maharaja of Lahore
BorninPunjab4 September 1838
Died in Paris aged 55 years
on 22nd October 1893.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 22, 1993
