Soha Ali Khan remembers Jeffrey Archer's bond with Tiger Pataudi

Soha Ali Khan paid tribute to Jeffrey Archer, recalling his friendship with Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. Her post traced a bond that stretched from Oxford days to later memorial events.Soha Ali Khan shared a picture of Pataudi family with Jeffrey Archer. Photo: InstagramNew Delhi,Oct 7, 2026 10:00 ISTActor Soha Ali Khan remembered British author Jeffrey Archer after his death, recalling his long-standing friendship with her father, former Indian cricket captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.Archer died peacefully at his home on October 5, aged 86. Following his death, Soha shared a tribute on social media, remembering the author’s connection with the Pataudi family.Sharing a throwback picture with Jeffrey Archer, Soha wrote on her Instagram Stories, “Jeffrey Archer was a friend of my father’s from their Oxford days.”She also recalled that Archer had written about her father in his 1980 book A Quiver Full of Arrows, a collection of 12 short stories. Soha said the author later wrote about Pataudi following his death in 2011. “He wrote about Abba in A Quiver Full of Arrows, wrote so beautifully about him after he passed,” she wrote.Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, popularly known as Tiger Pataudi, died in 2011 at the age of 70. Soha further recalled how Archer continued to honour her father’s memory years later. The author served as an auctioneer at an event hosted by Soha and her family in memory of Pataudi.“And years later held the auctioneer’s hammer at an evening we hosted in Abba’s memory,” Soha wrote.She ended her tribute with a simple, “May he rest in peace.”The throwback photograph shared by Soha featured several members of the Pataudi family, including herself, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sharmila Tagore and Saba Pataudi, along with Jeffrey Archer sitting at a dinner gathering.Jeffrey Archer dies at 86Jeffrey Archer died “suddenly and peacefully” at his home on October 5, according to his publisher HarperCollins. He was 86.His death came a day before the worldwide release of Adam & Eve, which is being described as his 31st and final novel.Archer had a career spanning several decades and sold more than 300 million books worldwide. Some of his best-known works include Kane and Abel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, A Matter of Honour, The Prodigal Daughter, As the Crow Flies and The Clifton Chronicles series.Apart from his writing career, Archer was also a former Conservative politician in the UK.- Ends