Princess Shruti | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Princess of Nepal | |||||
Born |
Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal |
15 October 1976||||
Died | 1 June 2001 King Birendra Military Hospital, Chhauni, Nepal (victim of the Nepalese royal massacre) |
(aged 24)||||
Spouse | Kumar Gorakh Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana | ||||
Issue | Girvani Rajya Laxmi Surangana Rajya Laxmi |
||||
|
|||||
House |
Shah dynasty (by birth) Rana dynasty (by marriage) |
||||
Father | Birendra Bir Bikram Shah | ||||
Mother | Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah | ||||
Religion | Hinduism |
Full name | |
---|---|
Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah |
Princess Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah (Nepali: श्रुती राज्यलक्ष्मी 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.
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 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 on 7 May 1997 in Kathmandu. They had two daughters:
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.
She, her mother, father, and brother Nirajan, and other six Royal relatives were killed in the Nepalese royal massacre on 1 June 2001.