Among those brought to Britain were six members of the Bambuti tribe, who came from their homeland in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo to perform at London s Hippodrome.
It was a scandal that riveted Victorian Britain. When Prince Peter Lobengula, the 25-year-old grandson of the King of the Matabele, fell in love with Kitty Jewe
Peter Lobengula (pictured left with fellow miners in 1901) was the 25-year-old grandson of the King of Matabele, whose forces were defeated in battle in what is now Zimbabwe in the 1890s.