Princess Shruti of Nepal
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox royalty Princess Shruti Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah of Nepal (Template:Langx) (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.
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Marriage and family
She was married to Kumar Gorakh Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, a member of the aristocratic Rana family of Nepal, descendants of Maharaja Chandra Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana. He is head of Global Banking and Commercial Banking for Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited.[1]
They married on 7 May 1997 in Kathmandu. They had two daughters:
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- Surangana Rajya Lakshmi Rana (born on 21 October 2000 at Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital in Kathmandu).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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 former royalist prime minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand.[2]
The 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.[3]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Honours
- National Honours
- Member First Class of the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu (29/12/1995).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Commemorative Silver Jubilee Medal of King Birendra (31/01/1997).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Bisista Sewa Padak [Special Service Medal] (1999).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Foreign Honours
- Template:Country data France : Grand Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honour (20/09/1994).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Template:Country data Germany : Dame Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (25/11/1996).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Ancestry
References
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- 2001 murders in Nepal
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- Mayo College Girls School alumni
- Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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- Shah dynasty
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- Daughters of kings