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25 mag 2021 · The Maharaja spent months preparing for the King’s visit, cutting roads for miles through the jungle. The Maharaja had 645 elephants ready for the hunting expedition. Records from the time tell how the King shot one tiger, wounding it badly, before a second tiger was killed by the King with a ‘snap-shot through the neck as if he had been a rabbit’.
Description. The Queen and Prince Philip walk beneath the Gateway of India, Bombay, on their way to the Atomic Energy Establishment at Trombay. A monumental arch stands above them with carpeted steps in the foreground.
Prince Edward spent four months in India, travelling from Bombay to Calcutta and then from Madras to Karachi. As the British Empire's Ambassador, the Prince visited India on behalf of his father King George V, to thank the nation for the essential role it had played during the First World War.
King's Visit to Bombay (1911) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
King's Visit to Bombay: With King George V, Queen Mary.
One of King’s most memorable experiences was residing at Mani Bhaven, Gandhi’s Bombay residence. He noted in the guestbook: “To have the opportunity of sleeping in the house where Gandhiji slept is really an experience I will never forget” (Papers 5:134).
Description. A view of the scene during the arrival of King George V and Queen Mary in Bombay for the 1911 Delhi Durbar. Crowds (seen from behind) f/g. The King and Queen seated on chairs on dais, various officials grouped either side of them. The photograph was reproduced on the cover of The Photohistorian, no.118 September 1997.
