Bidspirit auction | SINGH JAGATJIT (1872-1949)

SINGH JAGATJIT (1872-1949) - SINGH JAGATJIT (1872-1949) Maharajah Jagatjit Singh Sahib Bahadur. Last ruling Maharaja of the Kapurthala princely state from 1877 until his death, in 1949. He served as the Indian Representative to the League of Nations General Assembly in Geneva in 1925, 1927, and 1929 and attended the Round Table Conference in 1931. An interesting and clean A.L.S:, ` Jagatjit Singh´, three pages, small 4to, Mussorie, 13th May 1948, to Liane, de Pougy, his former maitresse, in French. The letter bears a very attractive vignette depicting the Maharajah Chateau Kapurthala, which he built in a French style modelled on the Palace of Versailles. Jagatjit Singh states in part ` Je vous remercie pour plusieurs jolies cartes que vous m'avez envoyées mais je n'ai pu écrire plus tôt étant très occupé. Je suis venu depuis 15 jours pour passer 3 mois dans mon château car il fait une chaleur atroce à Kapurthala... En ce moment ici c'est une grande station d'été dans les plus grandes montagnes Himalayas du monde à 2 300 mètres d'altitude. Il y a des cinémas, cabaret, bals, etc... et heureusement on est très loin de cette horrible guerre qu'il faut espérer ne durera pas longtemps...´ (Translation: ” Thank you for the many lovely cards you sent me, but I haven't been able to write sooner as I've been very busy. I arrived two weeks ago to spend three months in my castle because it's terribly hot in Kapurthala... Right now, it's a large summer resort in the world's highest mountains, the Himalayas, at an altitude of 2,300 meters. There are cinemas, cabarets, dances, etc... and thankfully, we're very far from this horrible war, which we must hope won't last much longer...”) VG Liane de Pougy (1869-1950) French vedette and dancer with the Folies Bergere, renowned as one of Paris´s most beautiful and notorious courtesans. She married Georges Ghika (1884-1945) Romanian Prince, the second husband of Liane de Pougy from 1910 to 1945, and a nephew of Queen Nathalie of Serbia.