As the film comes to an end photographs of her own family underline her close connection to the tragic events of 1947 when the departure of the British from India led to Partition and to the creation of the new state of Pakistan. Overseen by the last British viceroy, Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville), the event was viewed quite differently by each of the famous Indian political leaders of the period, Gandhi (Neeraj Kabi), Nehru (Tanveer Ghani) and Jinnah (Denzil Smith). But it was the British who pulled the strings and, as this film drawing on recent research suggests, Mountbatten was duped into yielding to the strategy of division that Churchill had intended all along. This plan was approved by General Ismay (Michael Gambon) but deplored by Sir Cyril Radcliffe (Simon Callow) who was asked to fix the new border.