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Rajendra Rajya Laxmi Devi

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Queen Narendra
Queen consort of Nepal
Queen regent of Nepal
Died13 July 1785
Hanuman Dhoka Palace, Nepal
SpousePratap Singh Shah
IssueNagendra Shah
Rana Bahadur Shah
Names
Rajendra Rajya Laxmi Devi
DynastyShah dynasty
ReligionHinduism

Rajendra Rajya Laxmi Devi (?–13 July 1785) was the Queen of Pratap Singh Shah, King of Kingdom of Nepal. She was the mother of Nagendra Shah (died aged six months) and Rana Bahadur Shah.[1]

She was born as a princess from Palpa.

She died from tuberculosis, at the Hanuman Dhoka Palace, in Kathmandu.

She was Regent on 17 November 1777 and she as deposed on 12 August 1778 and confined as a prisoner in silver handcuffs, restored on 20 June 1779 and continued as Regent until her death, during which time the principalities of Lambjang, Kaski and Tanahun were annexed.[2]

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