[2] The couple toured Europe soon after their wedding, and were received in London by King George V and Queen Mary.

[3] In an interview by the New York Herald Tribune in 1927, Amrit expressed determination to fight for the poorest and most marginalised women.

[1] Kaur spent some time in the United States before returning to Paris just as World War II broke out.

[5] She was arrested on 8 December 1940 by the Gestapo in occupied Paris "on the accusation of having sold her jewelry to help Jews leave" France and imprisoned in the internment camp Besançon.

The Germans offered to exchange Amrit for one of their spies imprisoned in India, but a British official decided that her repatriation was "not of sufficient political importance" to justify such a deal.