Anita Delgado
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Anita Delgado Briones was a Spanish flamenco dancer and singer from Spain who achieved fame for having married the Indian Maharaja of Kapurthala, thus becoming a Rani of Kapurthala.
Anita Delgado
Anita Delgado, c. 1910 – c. 1915.
The Maharaja of Kapurthala and his wife in Chicago, 1915
Delgado in 1915
SS Persia (1900)
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Persia was a Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner, built in 1900 by Caird & Company, Greenock, Scotland. It was torpedoed and sunk without warning on 30 December 1915, by Ger
Anita Delgado
…the Maharaja married his sixth wife and as a result, Delgado stayed in Paris living secretly with her secretary in order that her allowance continued. SS Persia, a ship carrying her jewels to France, sank en route. The jewels are said to be worth millions. She died on 7 July 1962 in Madrid. A movie on Anita's…
Postcard of SS Persia at Aden, c. 1900
The door to the bullion room, salvaged and now located at Buckler's Hard.