Princess Shruti of Nepal
Princess Shruti Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah of Nepal (Nepali: श्रुती राज्य लक्ष्मी देवी शाह) (15 October 1976 – 1 June 2001) was the daughter of King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, and sister of King Dipendra and Prince Nirajan.
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| Princess of Nepal | |||||
| Born | 15 October 1976 Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal | ||||
| Died | 1 June 2001 (aged 24) King Birendra Military Hospital, Chhauni, Nepal (victim of the Nepalese royal massacre) | ||||
| Spouse | Kumar Gorakh Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana | ||||
| Issue | Girwani Rajya Lakshmi Devi Rana Surangana Rajya Lakshmi Devi Rana | ||||
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| House | Shah dynasty (by birth) Rana dynasty (by marriage) | ||||
| Father | King Birendra | ||||
| Mother | Aishwarya Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah | ||||
| Religion | Hinduism | ||||
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.
She was a meritorious painter.
Marriage and family
She was married to Kumar Gorakh Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, a member of an aristocratic Rana family of Nepal, descendants of Maharaja Chandra Shumsher 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:
- Girwani Rajya Lakshmi Devi Rana (born on 22 June 1998 at Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital in Kathmandu).
- Surangana Rajya Lakshmi Devi Rana (born on 21 October 2000 at Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital in Kathmandu).
On 5 December 2008 in Kathmandu, Kumar Gorakh Shumsher 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.[2]
Name Shruti means "that which is heard".
Death
Princess Shruti, her mother, father, and brother Nirajan, and six other Royal relatives were killed in the Nepalese royal massacre on 1 June 2001.
Honours
- National Honours
- Member First Class of the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu (29/12/1995).
- Commemorative Silver Jubilee Medal of King Birendra (31/01/1997).
- Bisista Sewa Padak [Special Service Medal] (1999).
- Foreign Honours
France : Grand Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honour (20/09/1994).
Germany : Dame Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (25/11/1996).
Ancestry
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References
- Chartered, Standard. "About Us - Standard Chartered - Nepal". www.sc.com. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
- "Nepal palace massacre survivor makes fresh start - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 April 2018.