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Grand Tours of Scotland's Rivers episode 1

Grand Tours of Scotland’s Rivers episode 1 – River Dee

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Grand Tours of Scotland’s Rivers episode 1: Paul uncovers Upper Dee’s secrets, from Cairngorms to Balmoral, revealing a lost zeppelin and Queen Victoria’s favored man. Embarking on an enlightening journey, Paul ventures into the uppermost regions of the river Dee, a river that proudly stands as the highest in all of the United Kingdom. It is within the raw, rugged embrace of the Cairngorm mountains, whose peaks dare to kiss the sky, that he delves into the fervor of writer and fervent mountain lover, Nan Shepherd. He discovers her unparalleled passion for the living landscape, a vivid tapestry of nature […]

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The Stolen Maharajah

The Stolen Maharajah – Britain’s Indian Royal

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The Stolen Maharajah – Britain’s Indian Royal: The story of Duleep Singh, who was taken by the British as a boy and befriended Queen Victoria, until he realised what had been done to him and turned against the British Empire.     Documentary about the last Maharajah of the Punjab, Duleep Singh, who was wrenched from his mother’s arms as a child in the 1840s and put into the care of an official of the British Empire. Growing up in a colonial enclave in India, the boy king abandoned his Sikh religion and signed away his ancient kingdom to the

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