Princess Shruti of Nepal

Full name
	Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah

Princess Shruti
Princess Shruti
	Princess of Nepal
	Royal Family of Nepal
Born	15 October 1976; Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal
Died	1 June 2001 (aged 25); King Birendra Military Hospital, Chhauni, Nepal ; (victim of the Nepalese royal massacre)
Spouse	Kumar Gorakh Shumsher
Issue	Girvani Rajya Laxmi Rana ; Surangana Rajya Laxmi Rana
Full name
	Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah
House	Shah dynasty (by birth); Rana dynasty (by marriage)
Father	Birendra Bir Bikram Shah
Mother	Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah
Religion	Hinduism

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.

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

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

Ancestors 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 Shah

19. Krishnavati Devi Sahiba

2. King Birendra of Nepal

20. Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana

10. Hari Shumsher Jung 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 Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana (= 20)

12. Agni Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana

25. Jetha Bada Maharani Padma Kumari Devi (= 21)

6. Kendra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana

3. Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi

14. N. Bikram Shah

7. Shree Rajya Laxmi Rana

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". Retrieved 21 April 2018.

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[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.