The King never touched this money, and it formed, in a separate apartment, the greater part of the seventy lacs found in his reserved treasury on his death, out of the ten krores or ten millions sterling, which he found there when he ascended the throne in 1827.
She is said to have been the only one of his wives who ever had any real affection for the King.

She was haughty and imperious in her temper; and the only female, who had any influence over her, was a Mogulanee, who taught her to read and write.

She assisted her mistress very diligently in spending her pin-money, and made the fortunes of sundry of her relations.

Altercations between the Kuduseea Begum and the King were not uncommon; but, on the 21st of August, 1834, the King became unusually excited, and told her that he had raised her from bondage to the throne, and could as easily cast her back into the same vile condition.

Her proud spirit could not brook this, and she instantly swallowed arsenic.