Name: 阿妮塔-阿南德與索菲亞-杜勒普-辛格公主 - 5x15 (Anita Anand on Princess Sophia Duleep Singh — with 5x15)
Uploaded: 2025-10-18T18:28:13.000Z
Duration: 18 min 22 s

情態副詞

It's just that 5:2 in the lectern is basically my kryptonite.

只是 5:2 的 lectern 基本上是我的 kryptonite。

I'm not a very tall person, so this is going to be a bit of a challenge.

我不是一個很高的人，所以這會有點挑戰。

This is to basically not say that Stephanie can hit me over the head if I go over time.

這基本上是為了讓 Stephanie 在我超時的時候不能打我頭。

But I want you to think about this while I'm talking.

但在我說話的時候，我希望你們想想這件事。

If I manage to tell you all the things I want to tell you, I'm going to tell you what this is.

如果我能把我想說的都說完，我就告訴你們這是什麼。

And if I don't, we are all going to do the post club walk of shame together.

不然我們大家就一起 post club walk of shame。

Let me tell you a little bit about the woman.

Of course I leapt at the chance to talk about this because I love her.

當然我一聽到這個機會就抓住了，因為我太愛她了。

I didn't really want to be a writer, but she kind of made me do it.

我其實不想當作家，但她好像是逼我做的。

This is the plaque which is on a building called Faraday House.

這是一塊牌匾，它在一個叫做 Faraday House 的建築物上。

It's a really very smart building right opposite the gates of Hampton Court.

這是一棟非常聰明的建築物，就在 Hampton Court 大門的斜對面。

It's called Faraday House because Michael Faraday used to live there.

它叫做 Faraday House，因為 Michael Faraday 以前住在那裡。

它以前是 Crown estate 的一部分。

So it was the gift of a monarch to give it to somebody who was deserving.

所以這是一位君主送給有功之人的禮物。

So now there is a Faraday plaque and there is also a plaque to Princess Sophia de Liepzing, spelt Sophia, styled Sophia in the Victorian way.

所以現在有一塊 Faraday 牌匾，還有一塊給 Princess Sophia de Liepzing 的牌匾，拼寫是 Sophia，以維多利亞時代的方式稱為 Sophia。

Now I'm only sharing this picture with you.

現在我只跟你們分享這張照片。

There is another picture a split second after this.

在這張照片之後的瞬間，還有另一張照片。

It's happened in the summer where that curtain hit me straight in the face.

那是在夏天發生的，窗簾直接打到我的臉上。

It's not have been an easy journey with Princess Sophia Duleep Singh.

跟 Princess Sophia Duleep Singh 的旅程並不容易。

But this I think is the reason I got into this is I randomly saw a picture in sepia of this woman selling the suffragette newspaper outside Hampton Court.

但我認為我之所以會投入這一切，是因為我偶然在 Hampton Court 外看到一張泛黃的照片，是一位女士在賣 suffragette 報紙。

This is just down the road from the main gates.

And there was something about the picture.

You wouldn't necessarily feel this, but you know, you've heard of gaydar.

你們可能不會特別感覺到，但你們聽過 gaydar。

And there was some about this picture and I thought she is Indian.

這張照片有種特別的感覺，我當時覺得她是印度人。

Not only is she Indian, but she's Punjabi.

她不只是印度人，還是 Punjabi。

And I fell into this well of a story which is going to be hard to fit into 15 minutes, I promise I'm going to try, but

然後我掉進了一個故事的深淵，這個故事很難在 15 分鐘內講完，我保證我會盡量試，但是

it's three lifetimes in the space of one lifetime.

So what is Sophia Daleep Singh all about?

那麼 Sophia Daleep Singh 到底是什麼樣的人呢？

You have to understand a little bit about her family.

你必須稍微瞭解一下她的家人。

She was the daughter of the last Maharaja of Punjab.

她是旁遮普最後一位大君的女兒。

This is a picture of Maharaja Duleep Sing at the age of about 15, just before he's about to cross the world and come to Great Britain.

這張照片是大君 Duleep Sing 大約 15 歲時的照片，就在他即將橫跨世界來到英國之前。

you will know that he his jewel, which was the Koh I Noor.

你會知道他的珠寶，那就是 Koh I Noor。

He's the last Indian monarch to wear the Koh I Noor diamond.

他是最後一位佩戴 Koh I Noor 鑽石的印度君主。

He, at the age of 11, was forced by the British, who had a treaty of friendship with his kingdom before that, to sign over his kingdom, his Koh I Noor and his family's future.

他在 11 歲時，被英國人強迫簽署，將他的王國、他的 Koh I Noor 和他家人的未來都讓渡出去。當時英國與他的王國先前有友誼條約。

It's hugely controversial, which may be one of the reasons it didn't appear in the coronation as build.

這件事極具爭議，這或許是它沒有出現在加冕典禮上的原因之一。

It is a seeping sore in the psyche of Punjab to this day.

至今，這仍然是旁遮普人心中一道難以癒合的傷痛。

And there are laments sung about how his mother was torn away from him and locked in a tower and how surrounded by people whose language he didn't speak, with shiny epaulets, this little boy was forced to sign it all away.

有許多悲歌吟唱著他的母親是如何被從他身邊帶走並鎖在高塔裡，以及這個小男孩是如何在語言不通、身邊都是閃閃發亮肩章的人們環繞下，被迫簽下所有的一切。

He was actually sent hundreds of miles away from Lahore, which was where the capital of his kingdom was, and

他實際上被送往離他王國首都拉合爾數百英里遠的地方，

he was put into the foster care of a very pleasant Scottish family.

他被寄養給一個非常和善的蘇格蘭家庭。

this is what really hurts the Punjabi psyche even to this day, he learnt to be an Englishman, so he put away his Persian poetry, he learnt Shakespeare, he put away his falconry, he learned to play cricket.

這也是至今仍深深傷害旁遮普人心理的，他學會了當個英國人，於是他捨棄了波斯詩歌，學習莎士比亞，他放棄了馴鷹，學會了打板球。

Most controversially of all, he cut his hair.

And he broke the heart of an already grieving Lahore by converting to Christianity at the age of 15.

並在 15 歲時改信基督教，讓已經悲痛的拉合爾心碎。

About here, he decides he wants to see the Maharani of the world, Queen Victoria, under whose name and under whose reign this has been done.

大約在這個時候，他決定想見見這位世界上的女王，維多利亞女王，因為這一切都是在她名下、在她統治下發生的。

He's really interested in meeting the Maharani of the world and she in turn is really keen to meet him because.

他真的很有興趣見見這位世界上的女王，而她也同樣非常想見他，因為。

This is what happens when you get technology.

Queen Victoria is never going to see the eastern part of her empire, but

維多利亞女王將永遠無法見到她帝國的東方疆域，但是

Even though her Prime Minister says, don't do it, her advisors say, don't do it.

儘管她的首相說，別這麼做，她的顧問們也說，別這麼做。

It goes to the heathen princes heads, don't do this.

這讓異教徒王子們頭昏腦脹，別這麼做。

But she insists and so Duleep Singh comes to England and he's a huge hit with the royal family.

但她堅持己見，於是 Duleep Singh 來到了英國，他在皇室中大受歡迎。

He's immediately spirited off to Osborne, and he is beloved.

他立刻被帶到奧斯本，並且備受喜愛。

And there are sketches in the Royal collection and watercolors of these two painting each other, which you can only do with tenderness.

在皇家收藏中有這兩個人互相畫畫的素描和水彩畫，這只有帶著溫柔才能做到。

If you look at the sketches and you can, you will see there is love between these two.

如果你仔細看這些畫作，你會發現他們之間充滿愛意。

He's the first British Asian in many ways.

在很多方面，他是第一位英國亞洲人。

He marries an outsider of a woman, and he has a family.

他娶了一位外來的女子，並且有了家庭。

That is Princess Sophia right there, this little puppet over here, born in 1876.

這就是索菲亞公主，旁邊這個小小的玩偶，她出生於 1876 年。

She's born in Belgravia, but her life starts not at Hampton Court, that comes later, but

她出生在貝爾格萊維亞，但她的人生並非從 Hampton Court 開始，那是在後來，而是在

on the border between Norfolk and Suffolk, a place called Elverdon.

諾福克郡和薩福克郡的邊界，一個叫做 Elverdon 的地方。

So, first of all, the maharaja decks it out unlike anything else that region has seen.

首先，大君把這裡裝飾得與該地區前所未見的任何事物都不同。

You know, they're used to Sandringham in the big estates there, but

你知道，他們習慣了 Sandringham 和那裡的大莊園，但

he makes it into what the locals like to call the wedding cake, sort of in this Italianate style, which was really not in keeping with the local area.

他把它弄成了當地人所謂的「婚禮蛋糕」，有點義大利風格，這跟當地地區真的不太搭。

This is kind of the through the keyhole moment.

這就是那種「窺視孔」的時刻。

Because if it looked weird to the people who saw it from the outside, the inside that they would never see was done up like the Mughal palace, the Lahore palace that he would never see again.

因為如果從外面看的人覺得它很奇怪，那他們從未見過的內部，則是仿照蒙兀兒宮殿、仿照他再也見不到的拉合爾宮殿來裝飾的。

So, you know, it's entirely the Lahore style that he would never be able to visit again.

所以，你知道，這完全是拉合爾風格，是他再也無法親自造訪的。

所以，蘇菲亞就在這裡這樣長大。

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