Lauren Mackay

Welcome to The Thinking Traveller, the podcast from Academy Travel, where we explore culture, history, and ideas through conversation.

I'm Dr. Lauren Mackay.

From 1864, the British administration in India moved each summer from the heat of the plains to Shimla, a hill station in the Himalayan foothills.

Officials and their families travelled into the mountains, bringing the business of government with them.

It would be fantastic for me, but yeah, I was just thinking in terms of the scandals, he always just called her, as far as we know from these summaries, the concubine, you know? Yeah, I

think only a few times, you know, that's another one of those things that I'm pretty sure Dr. Lauren Mackay kind of busted that myth in her wonderful book about Chapuis that, yeah, I think only a couple of times and that he usually called her the lady, which still isn't that It's not affectionate or anything, but I think it's a little bit better than concubine.

But of course, again, like that's dramatic effect, calling her the concubines.

People just kind of clung to that.