shimla was once known as the queen of all hill stations.. >> my grandfather, it was very difficult to describe, what did he do, well, quite frankly, nothing. but he entertained hugely. >> garden parties, fancy dress balls, elephant hunts. ♪ the remnants of british rule can still be seen and felt. this is particularly true of one house. chapslee. >> my family was very fortunate that they were able to buy this house, because it was a famous house. >> the house was purchased by reggie's grandfather, the last maharajah of kapurthala. those brits really left beautiful buildings. >> from a distance, it looks much the same as it must have when the maharajah slept here. check out the tub. ♪ >> locked in a constant battle against time and nature, barbed wire does little to keep shimla's ever encroaching monkey population at bay. ♪ stripped of their wealth and their kingdoms, the one-time royals all across india have had to either sell their estates or like reggie, turn them into hotels and guest houses in order to hold on. ring a buzzer and a servan

or, yeah, doing something worse, i mean, think about that from the perspective of vesla or kate or shimla of activity that any normal woman should be able to engage in, like the first time you make love with your husband, the first time you nurse your child, those things are all tainted because of what this guy did to them. so there's no hierarchy of, oh, it wasn't that bad. it's all horrible. >> the first concern that i had was what's the statute of limitations, and i pretty quickly realized that, unfortunately, in kate's case that we were past the statute of limitations for her. that was a real kind of heartbreaking situation for her. >> the statute of limitations in this case was ten years after your 18th birthday. kate thomason missed the statute of limitations by two months. when she finally got to the place where she thought she was going to get justice, see somebody pay for destroying her life, she missed it by two months. >> her sister vesla was younger, and so she was still in that realm of being able to do that as well as the second victim, which was shima. >> in the case of shi