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Princess Shruti
Born(1976-10-15)15 October 1976
Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal
Died1 June 2001(2001-06-01) (aged 24)
King Birendra Military Hospital, Chhauni, Nepal
Cause of death Assassination (gunshot wounds)
SpouseKumar Gorakh Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana,
IssueGirwani Rajya Lakshmi Rana
Surangana Rajya Lakshmi Rana
Names
Shruti Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah
House Shah dynasty (by birth)
Rana dynasty (by marriage)
Father King Birendra
Mother Aishwarya Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah
Religion Hinduism

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.

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.[ citation needed]

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:

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][ citation needed]

Honours

National Honours
Foreign Honours

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Chartered, Standard. "About Us - Standard Chartered - Nepal". www.sc.com. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Nepal palace massacre survivor makes fresh start - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  3. ^ Mullins, Lisa (1 June 2011). "Why Nepal's Crown Prince Went on a Killing Spree". PRI. Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2017.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Princess Shruti
Born(1976-10-15)15 October 1976
Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal
Died1 June 2001(2001-06-01) (aged 24)
King Birendra Military Hospital, Chhauni, Nepal
Cause of death Assassination (gunshot wounds)
SpouseKumar Gorakh Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana,
IssueGirwani Rajya Lakshmi Rana
Surangana Rajya Lakshmi Rana
Names
Shruti Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah
House Shah dynasty (by birth)
Rana dynasty (by marriage)
Father King Birendra
Mother Aishwarya Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah
Religion Hinduism

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.

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.[ citation needed]

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:

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][ citation needed]

Honours

National Honours
Foreign Honours

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Chartered, Standard. "About Us - Standard Chartered - Nepal". www.sc.com. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Nepal palace massacre survivor makes fresh start - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  3. ^ Mullins, Lisa (1 June 2011). "Why Nepal's Crown Prince Went on a Killing Spree". PRI. Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2017.



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