Sumair Apjit Singh

Rajkumari Sumair Apjit Singh (1918 – 2003), popularly known as Princess Sumair, also spelt Sumaire and nicknamed Sumi,

Sumair was raised in Patiala, developing a fondness for Western culture and fashion from a young age. She was sent to England to be educated. Sumair arrived in Shanghai in July 1940 after being disowned by her family due to her reportedly "loose morals". She became entangled with the Axis during her time in Shanghai and may have spied for the Japanese. According to Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, Sumair's American death record claims she was born on 17 June 1928. Sumair was the cousin of Amrita Sher-Gil. Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, father of Amrita, had a child named Sumair with the daughter of Gulab Singh, his first marriage before he married the Hungarian mother of Amrita. Bobby Singh Bansal lists a "Sumeer Kaur" as being the daughter of Balram Singh (1879–1922, son of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil) and Harchand Kaur of Patiala, with her having two brothers named Ranjit Singh and Samarjit Singh.

As a young girl, Sumair would bribe the children of the French cook working at Patiala to buy her European fashion-magazines at the Patiala railway station and American movies. She was raised by English governesses due to her mother being pre-occupied with struggling with the fact that the maharaja had many mistresses. Sumair lived in Paris, France with her mother in 1938, working as a model for designer Elsa Schiaparelli. After the death of her father (who had left Sumair a large inheritance or 5'1" tall, In the early 1960s, Sumair ran an haute couture house on Avenue Georges Cinq in Paris. One day, Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton visited and wrote her a $250,000 check for most of the spring collection. In 1967, Sumair closed her Parisian store and began working as a financial adviser for several Swiss banks. In 1977, she married a Milwaukee-local named Jack Boughton (sources describe him as a European furrier In autumn 1980, she focused on day-into-evening dresses and gowns for gala nights. - He died on 30 January 2022.