Sophia Duleep Singh

A goddaughter of Queen Victoria and daughter of the last Sikh ruler of the Punjab, Duleep Singh used her title as a weapon. She sold suffrage newspapers outside her grace-and-favour home at Hampton Court, marched on Black Friday in 1910 and, as a leader of the Women's Tax Resistance League, refused to pay taxes on the principle of no taxation without representation; her jewellery was seized and auctioned. Her case links the British suffrage campaign to empire.