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...native rulers, kings in their own realms. In wealth, sheer undevaluable silver, gold and gems, nearly every potentate in London last week surpassed George V. But there was the usual tendency in the English Press to outfable the fabulous. That potentate of potentates, His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, was assumed to have taken a "whole floor" at the Savoy Hotel, assumed to be out shopping for "his sartorial foible. British underpants of a particular weave costing ?200 per pair," assumed to have "brought from India his special curry cook who takes twelve hours...
Instantly Tory Die-hard Winston Churchill leaped up to call the India Bill "dead." Perturbed. His Majesty's Government cabled the Speaker of India's Council of Princes, the pearl-bedecked Maharaja of Patiala, a pressing invitation to speed to London. Though Patiala is neither the biggest nor the richest of Indian States, it is the key State of the Sikh tribes of the Northern Punjabi plains which furnished nearly half of Britain's Indian troops in the War, and the Maharajas of Patiala have been strongly pro-British for 100 years. The present Maharaja is thus...
Irwin & Princes. In splendorous New Delhi met last week the Chamber of Princes. Nearly all of the Rajas and Maharajas maintain sumptuous residences in New Delhi which they inhabit only when the Chamber meets. Nearly all ride Rolls-Royces (the Maharaja of Patiala has 36 Rolls-Royces). Last week from the flagstaffs of these pampered potentates fluttered the crimson & gold of Bikaner, the blue, white & yellow of Bahawalpur, the scarlet of Patiala...
...Maharaja of Patiala, Maj. General His Highness Bhupindra Singh. Hon. Aide de Camp since 1922 to George V. (Deep-chested, tremendous, with close-braided beard and heavy-lidded, magnetic eyes, expression and reputation sensual and sinister; from beneath his turban peep a pair of earrings each consisting of two pearls, diamond-set and large as cherries...
Owner of 72 motor cars of which 36 are Rolls-Royces, His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes (see p. 21) brought his two wives with him to London last week, was not accused of bigamy...