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Anita Delgado Briones (1890-1962) was a Spanish dancer who in 1906 fascinated the Maharajah of Kapurthala, Jagatjit Singh (reg. 1877-1949), when he was visiting Madrid for the wedding of the King of Spain. They married in 1908 in France, and after a Sikh wedding in India, she changed her name to Maharani Prem Kaur. They travelled extensively in both Europe and India and this book was her memoir of the time. When the Maharaja married his seventh wife in 1925, they divorced and Prem Kaur returned to Spain.
For a brief discussion of Maharajah Jagatjit Singh, see A. Jackson, A. Jaffer (ed.), Maharaja: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts, London 2009, pp. 130-131.