I am currently reading A Princess Remembers, the memoirs of the Maharini Jaipur (Gayatri Devi). That's her above, and wow! What an incredible and ispiriring woman she was! I literally can not put it down and now my India obsession has reached new heights.
I am now fascinated by both Gyatri Devi and her Mother, Indira Devi (The Maharini of Cooch Behar) as the book is full of such beautiful pictures and enchanting tales of the fairytale lives they led. I'm going to wait to finish the book, and then i will do a whole post dedicated to them in the not too distant future.
For now I wanted to share with you some amazing imagery from one of my favourite websites
Old Indian Photo's. I could spend hours and hours going though all the catagories and I have picked out some of my favourites for you.
The picture on the right is The Maharini of Jaipur with her incredibly handsome Maharaja known as 'Jai'. The picture was taken on their wedding day. They married for love.
This is a very young Maharini of Jaipur in the 1930's.
The man on the right is the Maharaja of Jodphur and one of my ultimate crushes! He is just so handsome. Poor Craig, he is a long suffering boyfriend to my obsession with Indian princes!
The lady on the right is Suniti Devi, Maharini of Cooch Behar. She was the Maharini before to Indira Devi took over. She was also one of the leading figures in a westernising and rationalising movement within Hinduism. The whole of the Cooch Behar family were known for their unorthodox, westernized and wild behaviour, mixing with Edwardian society and leading a purely 'social' life.
The 'Old Indian Photo's' site update regularly so go and have a browse. Have any of you read A Princess Remembers? I have wanted to read it for ages and found it in a charity shop over Easter. Yay! It couldn't have come at a better time as I am attending Nicole's (of Fashion Forestry fame) 'Indian Princess' party next week.
I'm very excited to meet the lovely Harriett and Aimee of The Bright Young Twins, Kerry of Yours Truly and Dulcie of Human Sea. Better get my outfit sorted!
One last thing. I now have a Facebook page for my blog. You can find it here. Or you can press the 'Like' button on my side bar.
Hope you all have wonderful weekends ahead of you.
Much love
Kelly-Marie xx
