Duleep Singh

Here, we'll be taking a look at some of the lives that have shaped not just the east of England, but the world beyond.

MUSIC I'm your host, Mike Rigby, and first in line for the Legacy's treatment is the lost Prince of the Punjab and the last Maharaja, Duleep Singh.

I'll be examining how this royal rebel, as well as his remarkable family, made a lasting mark across continents and popular culture in many different ways, times and places.

It's a thrilling story of empire, exile and espionage.

So join me now, if you will, to examine the East Anglian legacy of the last Maharaja, Duleep Singh and his family on this week's Eastern Promise.

Chapter One.

The Last Maharaja.

Created by French video games giant Ubisoft, players use parkour-style action in service of the Brotherhood of Assassins, dubiously titled Good Guys, against the wicked schemes of the Templar Order as they continue their struggle in games set variously in ancient Greece, feudal Japan, all the way to the French and the American Revolutions.

Looking at how rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries from the East of England have made their mark across the globe, and how the East of England also left its mark on them.

We begin with the Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last prince of the Punjab, looking at how his East Anglian legacy lives on today in unlikely places, both the physical and the digital.

That's all to come next week.

So until then, bye for now.

They're all buried in Kenmore, which is a beautiful point at the end of Loch Tay, which runs into the River Tay.

And they're buried next to the infant son of the Maharaja, Duleep Singh, as it turns out.

And...

The Earl of Airlie, who's the boss around there, of whose tartan we wear, he was the only one who kept records of the people who marched with Bonnie Prince Charlie.