Flashy will certainly be pleased to see that there is some old India hands in the household. His time spent in the Raj and in particular his brief sexual acquaintences with Queen Jind Kaur, the Regent of the Sikh Punjab and the Rani Lakshmi Bai during the Indian mutiny gave him an appreciation of eastern sexual practices not dissimilar to those of the senior household staff.<br/><br/>By the by, roughly what point in Victoria's reign is the story set. Flashman is a notorious braggert, who with practiced false modesty manages to bring up his heroic exploits for the empire and the heads of state and other notables he has known quite frequently.