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Princess Shruti of Nepal

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Princess Shruti
Princess of Nepal
Born(1976-10-15)15 October 1976
Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal
Died1 June 2001(2001-06-01) (aged 24)
King Birendra Military Hospital, Chhauni, Nepal
(victim of the Nepalese royal massacre)
SpouseKumar Gorakh Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana
IssueGirvani Rajya Laxmi
Surangana Rajya Laxmi
Names
Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah
HouseShah dynasty (by birth)
Rana dynasty (by marriage)
FatherBirendra Bir Bikram Shah
MotherAishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah
ReligionHinduism

Princess Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah (Template:Lang-ne) (15 October 1976 – 1 June 2001) was the daughter of King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, and sister of King Dipendra and Prince Nirajan.

Education

Princess Shruti studied at Kanti Ishwari Sishu Vidhyalaya in Tripureswar, Nepal, St. Mary's School in Kathmandu, Nepal, and later at Mayo College Girls School in Ajmer, India. She completed her bachelor's degree at Padma Kanya Campus in Nepal.

Marriage and Family

She was married to Kumar Gorakh Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, a member of an aristocratic Rana family of Nepal, descendants of Maharaja Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana. He is Head Global Banking and Commercial Banking for Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited.[1]

They married on 7 May 1997 in Kathmandu. They had two daughters:

  • Girvani Rajya Laxmi (born on 22 January 1998 in Kathmandu).[2]
  • Surangana Rajya Laxmi (born on 2 October 2000 in Thapatali, Kathmandu).[3]

On 5 December 2008 in Kathmandu, Kumar Gorakh Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, married Deepti Chand, a humanities student at Kathmandu's Padma Kanya Multiple Campus, who is also the niece of a former royalist prime minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand.[4]

Death

She, her mother, father, and brother Nirajan, and other six Royal relatives were killed in the Nepalese royal massacre on 1 June 2001.[5]

Honours

National Honours
  • Member First Class of the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu (29/12/1995).[6]
  • Commemorative Silver Jubilee Medal of King Birendra (31/01/1997).[7]
  • Bisista Sewa Padak [Special Service Medal] (1999).[8]
Foreign Honours

Ancestry

Family of Princess Shruti of Nepal
16. King Prithvi of Nepal
8. King Tribhuvan of Nepal
17. Divyeshwari Rajya Laxmi Devi
4. King Mahendra of Nepal
18. Arjan Singh Sahib
9. Kanti Rajya Laxmi Devi
19. Krishnavati Devi Sahiba
2. King Birendra of Nepal
20. Juddha Samsher Jang Bahadur Rana
10. Hari Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana
21. Jetha Bada Maharani Padma Kumari Devi
5. Indra Rajya Laxmi Devi
22. N. Bikram Shah
11. Megha Kumari Rajya Laxmi
1. Princess Shruti Shah of Nepal
24. Juddha Samsher Jang Bahadur Rana (= 20)
12. Agni Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana
25. Jetha Bada Maharani Padma Kumari Devi (= 21)
6. Kendra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana
3. Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi
14. N. Bikram Shah
7. Shree Rajya Laxmi Devi

References

  1. ^ Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited
  2. ^ Royal Ark
  3. ^ Royal Ark
  4. ^ Times of India
  5. ^ Royal Ark
  6. ^ Royal Ark
  7. ^ Royal Ark
  8. ^ Royal Ark
  9. ^ Royal Ark
  10. ^ Royal Ark


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