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In Seeking The Taj, Elaine Williams evokes a spirited young woman’s immersion into the mysterious society of deposed Indian royals where crumbling palaces hold dark secrets and treachery abounds. Set in 1969, when hippies, soul seekers and the beatles swarmed into India, Garnet, a young poet with a painful past, is travelling in India to write about the empress who inspired the Taj Mahal. Burdened on the trip by the brilliant, half-mad Niles, at the Taj Mahal ...
My first meeting with Princess Brinda, Maharani of Kapurthala, took place at tea in the crystal-chandeliered dining room of the old and elegant Hotel Sulgrave on Park Avenue. The appointment was arranged by my literary agent after I agreed to consider authoring a book on the Maharani’s extraordinary royal life. She was anxious for her story to be told and although I was a very young woman at the time I was touched by the elderly monarch’s poignant story of a ...