An unworthy queen has a close relationship with her servants. That's the outline of the story in the latest film of senior actress Judi Dench in 'Victoria and Abdul'.
During his lifetime, Queen Victoria who led England in the era of 1876-1901 had a servant whom he trusted named Abdul Karim.
Abdul is a young man from India. Victoria's interest in Abdul stems from the typical Indian food menu he ate when Abdul officially served as a servant in the British court.
Reported by Vanity Fair, through the biography of the queen, Victoria then want to know India more deeply. He also asked to be taught Urdu, the root of the Indian language.
"I learned a few words in Urdu for ease when talking to my servants," Victoria said through the diary she wrote.
Not until there, Victoria then also ask Abdul learn English so that both can communicate smoothly.
Through Victoria's private letters to Abdul found, Victoria considers Abdul as a child. At each end of the letter, he marks 'your loving mother' and 'your closest friend'.
But this relationship is then considered to be ambiguous when in some other letters, Victoria often put lipstick at the end of the letter that he gave to Abdul.
"Since then, this relationship is considered more than a friendship, especially with the distance of the age where the queen was over 60 years old," said Shrabani Basu, the queen's biographer and the waiter who is now appointed to the big screen .
'Victoria and Abdul' became the moment of the return of Judi Dench role as Queen of England after 20 years ago, she played the same character in 'Mrs. Brown' in 1997.
