Princess Shruti of Nepal

Princess Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah (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.

Princess Shruti
Princess of Nepal
Royal Family of Nepal
Born(1976-10-15)15 October 1976
Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal
Died1 June 2001(2001-06-01) (aged 25)
King Birendra Military Hospital, Chhauni, Nepal
(victim of the Nepalese royal massacre)
SpouseKumar Gorakh Shumsher
IssueGirvani Rajya Laxmi Rana
Surangana Rajya Laxmi Rana
Full name
Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah
HouseShah dynasty (by birth)
Rana dynasty (by marriage)
FatherBirendra Bir Bikram Shah
MotherAishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah
ReligionHinduism

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 Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, a member of an aristocratic Rana family of Nepal, descendants of Maharaja Chandra Shumsher Jung 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 Laxmi Devi Rana (born on 22 June 1998 in Kathmandu).
  • Surangana Rajya Laxmi Devi Rana (born on 21 October 2000 in Thapathali, Kathmandu).

On 5 December 2008 in Kathmandu, Kumar Gorakh Shumsher Jung 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

She, 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

Ancestry
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References
  1. Chartered, Standard. "About Us - Standard Chartered - Nepal". www.sc.com. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  2. "Nepal palace massacre survivor makes fresh start - Times of India". Retrieved 21 April 2018.


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