Victoria & Abdul vs the True Story of. A fact-checking of the Victoria and Abdul movie vs. the true story. Find out if Queen Victoria really was an anti-racist. The relationship between Queen Victoria and her handsome, young Indian attendant Abdul Karim was deemed so controversial and scandalous by her family members that. Hafiz Mohammed Abdul Karim, CIE, CVO (1863 – April 1909), known as "the Munshi", was an Indian attendant of Queen Victoria. He served her during the final fifteen.