Maharaja Duleep Singh was removed from the Sikh throne in Lahore in 1849 by the East India Company. He was placed under the guardianship of a Christian military family and given a Bible. In 1854 at 16 years old, he was sent to London and told by his English tutor to give the Koh-i-Noor diamond to Queen Victoria as a gift when he met her. He had no option but to obey the suggestion.
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