Like Meghan, Princess Victoria Gouramma’s Unhappiness Was Ignored
We can only guess at why Gouramma wanted to escape, since Victoria ordered for her papers to be burned. The few remaining records of Gouramma’s conversations do however show that she desperately craved anonymity and freedom — echoing Meghan Markle’s harrowing comments about how trapped she felt within the gilded cage of the royal household. Gouramma confessed to Victoria’s private secretary that she ‘wished to go somewhere where nobody would take notice of her’ and to adopt the life of a servant.
But Gouramma, just like Meghan, was ignored when she voiced her unhappiness. Her British carers failed to understand her struggles, insensitively attributing her attempts at flight to her ‘innate Oriental nature’ and inability to adjust to English ‘civilised’ society. She had already been separated…