Catherine Duleep Singh

Princess Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh (27 October 1871 – 8 November 1942) was the second daughter of Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh and his first wife Maharani Bamba (née Müller) and the granddaughter of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Sikh Empire. She was educated in England and in 1894 she was presented at Court. She became a suffragist with her sisters, but did not take part in Emmeline Pankhurst’s Suffragette movement though her sister Sophia did.

She was a lifelong companion of governess Lina Schäfer and from 1904 lived with her in Germany until the latter's death in 1937. She requested her burial at Lina's side in her will. Catherine and Lina were instrumental in aiding many Jewish families escape from Germany during the 1930s.

In June 1997, her name was in the news upon the discovery of a dormant joint (with Schäfer) bank account in a Swiss bank. After several claimants had been rejected, the contents of the bank account were awarded by a Swiss tribunal to the family of a secretary of her elder sister Bamba in Pakistan.