So did the family bring Hazrat Mahal with them from Farrukhabad or did they discover her in Lucknow? Wajid Ali Shah had an insatiable appetite for young women and the financial means and legal justification to satisfy it. Wajid Ali Shah’s first nikah marriage had taken place in 1837 when he was 15, before he was named heir to the throne. Becoming a father while still a teenager himself did not inhibit Wajid Ali Shah from embarking on numerous affairs, which he described in his autobiography. Wajid Ali Shah was delighted.