Princess Sophia Alexandria Duleep Singh

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women/articles/sophia-duleep-singh-princess-and-suffragette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAH0MLNfK1U
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999); Anita Anand, Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary (2015)

Database linked sources: https://www.suffrageresources.org.uk/resource/3219/princess-sophia-duleep-singh
https://www.suffrageresources.org.uk/activity/3210/whose-suffrage-campaign-story-should-we-commemorate-with-a-statue

Family information: Daughter of Maharajah Duleep Singh, a friend of Queen Victoria, who was Sophia's godmother.

Additional Information: Princess Sophia joined the WSPU and the Women's Tax Resistance League (WTRL) to help fight for votes for women. She refused to pay her taxes and illegally spoiled her 1911 government census survey form by graffitiing across it. She took to selling the Suffragette newspaper outside Hampton Court Palace, where she lived in a 'grace and favour' apartment granted to her by her godmother Queen Victoria. She was pictured in the newspaper standing next to an advertising board outside the palace, which prompted calls by the authorities for her removal from her home at the palace as punishment for such antics. Sophia also took part in the physical scuffles on ?Black Friday? in 1910, when the police were violent towards suffrage protestors. On another occasion, she threw herself onto the Prime Minister?s car, pressing a ?Votes for Women? pamphlet against the windshield. She was arrested during the suffrage campaign but was never sent to prison, perhaps because of her privileged position. In 1911, she took part in the illegal suffrage boycott of the goverment census survey from her 'grace and favour' home at Hampton Court. Instead of providing the information required, she wrote across her form 'No Vote, No Census. As women do not count, they refuse to be counted.' Sophia's sister, Princess Catherine Duleep Singh, was also a suffrage campaigner but belonged to the law-abiding National Union of Women?s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).