PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Rulers
were...
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj PRITHVI NARAYAN SHAH
Dev 1768/1775, 1st King of
Nepal,
born 1723, married (amongst others) Rani Narendra Lakshmi Devi,
committed sati
January 1775, and had issue. He died 11th January 1775.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj PRATAP SINGH (by
Narendra Lakshmi Devi) (qv)
- Maharajkumar Bahadur Shah, regent of
Nepal 1778/1779 and 1785/1794,
died
1795.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj PRATAP SINGH SHAH
1775/1777, born 1751, married (a)
Rajendra Lakshmi Devi, born 1751, acting Regent of Nepal 1777/1778 and
1779/1785, died 13th July 1785, (b) Maiju Rani, a lady of the wrong
caste,
committed sati December 1777, and had issue. He died 17th
November
1777
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj RANA BAHADUR SHAH
(by Rajendra Lakshmi Devi) (qv)
- Maharajkumar Sher Bahadur Shah (by
Maiju Rani), born ?November 1777,
died
25th April 1806.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj RANA BAHADUR SHAH
1777/1799, born 1775, Regent 1804/1806,
his youth had been spent in pampered luxury amid deadly intrigue and
had
made him incapable of running either his own life or the country. He
became
infatuated with a Maithili Brahman widow, Kantavati, and cleared the
way
to the throne for their son. Disconsolate after the death of his
mistress
in 1799, Rana Bahadur began to engage in such irrational behavior that
leading citizens demanded his abdication. He was forced to turn his
throne
over to his son, then aged one and one-half years, and retired to
Banaras.
He returned to Nepal in 1804, becoming mukhtiyar, and ordering
the
execution of Damodar Pande, Rana Bahadur Shah quarreled in open court
with
his half-brother, Sher Bahadur, whereupon the latter drew his sword and
killed Rana Bahadur Shah before being cut down by a nearby courtier, he
married 1stly 1789, Rani Raj Rajeswari Vidya Lakshmi, Regent 1799/1800
and 1802/1804, died 1805, married 2ndly 1791, Rani Subarna Prabha,
Regent
1800/1802, married 3rdly January 1797, Rani Kantavati Mati, died 1799,
married 4thly, Rani Chandrabati, married 5thly 1804, Rani Lalit Tripura
Sundari (née Thapa), born 1793/4, Regent of Nepal 1806/1832,
died
1832, and had issue. He died 25th April 1806.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj GIRVANYUDDHA BIKRAM
SHAH (by Kanti Mati) (qv)
- Maharajkumar Ranendra Bikram Shah (by Subarba Prabha)
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj GIRVANYUDDHA BIKRAM
SHAH 1799/1816, born 1797, married
(a) Senior Queen, committed sati November 1816, (b) Junior
Queen,
born 1798, died 1816, He died 22nd November 1816.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj RAJENDRA BIKRAM SHAH
(son) 1816/1847, born 1813, married
(amongst others) (a) Rani Samrajya Lakshmi Devi, died 1843, (b) Rani
Rajya
Lakshmi Devi and had issue. He died 1881.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj SURENDRA BIKRAM SHAH
(by Samrajya) (qv)
- Maharajkumar Ranendra Bikram Shah (by
Rajya)
- Maharajkumar Birendra Bikram Shah (by
Rajya)
- Maharajkumar Upendra Bikram Shah, married and had issue.
- Son, married daughter of Maharaja Sri Tin Sir Jung
Bahadur Rana.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj SURENDRA BIKRAM SHAH
1847/1881, born 1829, married and
had issue. He died 17th May 1881.
- HRH Prince Trailokya, born 1847,
married 1stly Divyeswari Rajya Lakshmi
Devi, married 2ndly, Sri Panch Bada Maharani, daughter of Maharaja Sri
Tin Sir Jung Bahadur Rana, married 3rdly, Sri Panch Kanchhi Maharani,
daughter
of Maharaja Sri Tin Sir Jung Bahadur Rana, married 4thly, Lalita Rajya
Lakshmi Devia, Regent 1881/1893, and had issue. He died 1878.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj PRITHVI Bir Bikram
Shah (qv)
- HRH Prince Narendra Bikram Shah, married daughter of
Maharaja Sri Tin
Sir
Jung Bahadur Rana and had issue.
- Daughter, born 1842, married 1848, Jagat Jung Rana, son
of Maharaja Sri
Tin Sir Jung Bahadur Rana.
- Daughter, married Jeet Jung Rana, son of Maharaja Sri Tin
Sir Jung
Bahadur
Rana.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj PRITHVI Bir Bikram
Shah 1881/1911, born 18th August
1875, married to two daughters of Bhir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana (both
dsp)
and also to two Princesses from the Punjab, the elder of whom (HH
Maharani
Revati Raman Rajya Lakshmi 1878-1926, Regent 1911/-) was the mother of
HM King Tribhuvan. He died 11th December 1911.
- Swasti Sri Giriraja Chakra Chudamani
Nara-Narayanetyadi Wiwidha
Whajamana
Manonnata Projjwala-nepala-taramahadhipati Shri Man Maharajadhirja Sri
Sri Sri Maharaja TRIBHUVAN Bir Bikram Junga Bahadur Shah Bahadur
Shamsher
Junga Dewanam Sada Samara-wijayinam (qv)
- HRH Princess Royal Lakshmi Rajya
Lakshmi Devi, married 20th April 1904
Lt. Gen. HH Maharajkumar Sir Keshar Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, (son of
HH Projjwala-Nepala Taradhisha Maharajah Sir Chandra Shumsher Jung
Bahadur
Rana).
- Maharani Rama Rajya Lakshmi Devi,
married Lt. Gen. Maharajkumar Singha
Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, (son of HH Projjwala-Nepala Taradhisha
Maharajah
Sir Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana).
- Tara Rajya Lakshmi Devi, married
Maj.Gen. Maharajkumar Krishna Shumsher
Jung Bahadur Rana, (son of HH Projjwala-Nepala Taradhisha Maharajah Sir
Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana).
- Daughter, married Gen. Sur Shumsher
Jung Bahadur Rana, (son of Gen. Sri
Gehendra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana).
- HM Swasti Sri Giriraja
Chakra Chudamani Nara-Narayanetyadi
Wiwidha Whajamana Manonnata Projjwala-nepala-taramahadhipati Shri Man
Maharajadhirja
Sri Sri Sri Maharaja TRIBHUVAN Bir Bikram Junga Bahadur Shah Bahadur
Shamsher
Junga Dewanam Sada Samara-wijayinam 1911/1955, born 30th June 1906 (#1),
married 1stly, HM Queen Kanti Rajya Lakshmi Devi of Sitapur, born 1906,
died 12th April 1973, married 2ndly, HM Queen Ishwari Rajya Lakshmi
Devi
of Sitapur (sister of the Senior Queen), and had issue. He died 13th
March
1955 in Zurich.
- HM King MAHENDRA Bir Bikram Shah Dev
(qv)
- HRH Prince Himalaya Bir Bikram Shah
Dev, born 12th October 1921 in
Narayanhity
Royal Palace, married 5th March 1945 in Narayanhity Royal Palace, HRH
Princess
Princep Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, born 16th March 1930 in Kathmandu,
(daughter
of General Sri Nara Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana), died 22nd May 1982 in
Bangkok, Thailand. He died sp 9th May 1980.
- HRH Princess Vijaya Rajya Lakshmi Devi
HRH Princess Bharati Rajya Lakshmi
Devi, born 17th
February 1928 in Kathmandu, married 8th February 1951 in
Calcutta,
HH Maharaja Shri PRADEEP CHANDRA BHANJ DEO of Mayurbhanj. - HRH Prince BASUNDHARA Bir Bikram Shah Dev, born 25th
November 1921 in
Narayanhity
Royal Palace, married 17th June 1945 in Narayanhity Royal Palace, HRH
Princess
Helen Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, born 21st September 1932 in Kathmandu,
(daughter
of General Sri Nara Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana), and had issue. He died
31st August 1977 in Kathmandu.
- HRH Princess Jayanti Rajya Lakshmi Devi, died 1st June
2001 in
Narayanhity
Royal Palace, Kathmandu.
- HRH Princess Ketaki Rajya Lakshmi Devi, born c1946,
married to
Mr.Chester.
- HRH Princess Jyotsana Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah.
- HRH Princess Jyoti Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah.
- Rani Triloki Rajya Lakshmi Devi, married February 1948,
Rao Raja
HARDAYAL
SINGH of Sikar.
- Rani Nalini Rajya Lakshmi Devi, married 1950, Raja
SIVRATEN DEV SINGH
of Poonch.
- Rani Bimala Rajya Laxmi Devi (by a secondary wife),
married Maharajkumar
Shri Maheshwar Kumar Singh of Surguja,
and has issue.
- HM King MAHENDRA BIR BIKRAM SHAH Dev 1955/1972, born 11th
June 1920 in
Kathmandu, married 1stly, 8th May 1940 in Kathmandu, HM Queen Indra
Rajya
Lakshmi Devi, born 1924, (daughter of General Shri Tin Maharajkumar
Hari
Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana), died 27th August 1950 in Kathmandu,
married
2ndly, 11th December 1952 in Kathmandu, HM Queen Ratna Rajya Lakshmi
Devi,
born 20th August 1928, (daughter of General Shri Tin Maharajkumar Hari
Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana), and had issue. He died 31st January 1972
in
Kathmandu.
- HRH Princess Shanti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah, born 1941,
married Kumar
Deepak Jung Bahadur Singh, Raja of Bajang,
and had issue. She died 1st June 2001 in Narayanhity Royal Palace.
- Rajkumari Chhaya Devi, married Shri Pradeep Bikram
Rana, son of Shri Madan Bikram Rana and Rajkumari Mana Rajya Lakshmi
Devi of Jajarkot.
- HRH Princess Sharada Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah, born 1942,
married Kumar
Khadga Bikram Shah 1943-2001 (see below). She died 1st June 2001 in
Narayanhity
Royal Palace.
- HM King BIRENDRA Bir Bikram Shah Dev (qv)
- HM King GYANENDRA Bir Bikram Shah Dev (qv)
- HRH Prince Dhirendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, born 4th
January 1950,
resigned
from the Royal Family in 1988, served as Patron of Nepal Sports Council
and International Youth Year Nepal in 1985, married 1stly 13th
May
1973, Prekshya Rajya Lakshmi Devi, born 1952, (daughter of Lt. Gen.
Shri
Kendra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana), died 12th November 2001 in Rara,
married
2ndly 1991 in Isle of Wight, UK, Shirley Greaney [Mrs. Shirley Shah],
born
1960, and had issue. He died 4th June 2001 in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- HRH Princess Puja Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, married
Rajiv Shahi.
- HRH Princess Sitashma Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, married
5th March 2003,
Abhinesh Shah, son of Arjun Jung Shah and Asha Rajya Lakshmi Devi.
- HRH Princess Dilasha Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, married
9th December
2003,
Adarsha Bikram Rana, son of Shri Kishor Bikram Rana and the late Rama
Rajya
Laxmi Devi.
- Ushaanaa Laela Shah (by Mrs. Shirley Shah), born 22nd
July 1994.
- HRH Princess Shobha Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah, born 1950,
married Kumar
Mohan B. Shah.
- Rajkumar Rabindra Shah (by an informal liaison).
- HM King BIRENDRA BIR BIKRAM SHAH Dev 1972/2001, born 28th
December 1945
in Narayanhity Royal Palace, married 2nd May 1969 in Kathmandu,
HM
Queen Aishwarya Rajya Lakshmi Devi, (daughter of Lt.Gen. Kendra
Shumsher
Jung Bahadur Rana), and had issue. He died 1st June 2001 in Narayanhity
Royal Palace.
- HM King DIPENDRA Bir Bikram Shah Dev (qv)
- HRH Princess Shruti Rajya Lakshmi Devi, born 15th October
1976, married
8th May 1997 in Kathmandu, Kumar Gorakh Shumsher Jung Bahadur
Rana
of Nepal, and had issue. She died 1st
June
2001, Narayanhity Royal Palace.
- HRH Prince NIRAJAN Bir Bikram Shah Dev, born 6th November
1978, died
1st
June 2001, Narayanhity Royal Palace.
- HM King DIPENDRA BIR BIKRAM SHAH Dev
2001, born 27th June 1971, died sp
4th June 2001. 12th King of Nepal for three days in June 2001.
- HM King GYANENDRA BIR BIKRAM SHAH Dev (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Supriya Shah, born c1974, paternal grand-daughter of the
sister of Rani
Rajya Lakshmi, mother of HM Queen Aishwarya Rajya Lakshmi Devi (qv).
- Garima Shah, 1st cousin of Kumar Gorakh Shumsher
Jung Bahadur Rana.
- UNKNOWN, married Bodh Kumari, died 2nd June 2001, cremated
3rd June 2001,
and had issue.
- Kumar Khadga Bikram Shah, educated at St
Xavier’s
high school at
Godavari and at St Xavier’s College in Calcutta, graduated in political
science and studied law in Kathmandu, first member secretary of the
National
Sports Council, founded the Nepal Mountaineering Association, director
at CNAS 1984/89, married HRH Princess Sharada Rajya Laxmi Devi, born
1942,
died 1st June 2001 (see above). He died 1st June 2001 aged 58.
- Lalit Bikram Shah, born c1944, educated at St Xavier’s
high school at
Godavari
and at St Xavier’s College in Calcutta, regional director of the
International
Civil Aviation Organisation (Asia-Pacific).
- Neer Bikram Shah
- Chautarya Kendra Bikram Shah, married Jaya Rajya Lakshmi
Devi, daughter
of Gen. Shri Samrajya Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana and Rani Sarawati
Kumari
of Bajang State, and has issue, 1 son and 1 daughter.
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born 7th July 1947, briefly King of Nepal 1950/1951,
Regent
of Nepal
for three days in June 2001, educated at St Joseph's College in
Darjeeling, India, and graduated from Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu
in 1969; Member of the World Wildlife Fund since 1997, patron of the
Britain-Nepal
Society, Supreme
Commander of the Royal Nepalese Army, patron of the Royal Nepal
Academy, patron of the Royal Nepal Academy of
Science and Technology, chair of the King Mahendra Trust for Nature
Conservation, the Lumbini Development Fund, the Pashupati Area
Development Fund and Chancellor of Tribhuvan University and
Mahendra Sanskrit University, appointed Chairman of the Advisory
Committee in 1975, Member of the state council in 1977, served as the
member and chairman of the Royal Regent Council and Royal
Representative Council, chairman of the editorial board of "Ram
Jham," awards and decorations include, Sovereign of all Orders of
the Kingdom of Nepal, Ati Suvikkyat
Sewalankar, 1968; Subha Rajyabhishek Padaka, 1956; Bishesh Sewa Padaka,
1971; Subha Rajyabhishek Padaka, 1975; Tesro SAARC Shikhara Sammelan
Smriti Padaka,1988; Gaddi Aarohan ko Rajat Mahotsav Padaka, 1971;
Vishista Seva Padaka, 1999; The Grand Cross Order of
the House of the Orange (The Netherlands), 1967; Nishan-e-Imtiaz
(Pakistan), 1970; Grand Cordon of Yugoslav Flag, First Class
(Yugoslavia), 1974; Order of Labour (Democratic People's Republic of
Korea), Knight Grand Cordon of the Most Exalted Order of the White
Elephant (Thailand), 1979; Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
(France), 1983; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of
St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.) (United Kingdom), 1986; The Order
of the Golden Arc (The Netherlands), 1986; Grand Gwanghwa Order of
Diplomatic Service - Merit (Republic of Korea), 1987; Grand Cross
Isabel La Catolica (Spain), 1987; The Grand Cross (Germany), 1996. He
also writes
lyrics
under the pen-name G. Shah, married 1st May 1970 in Kathmandu, HM Queen
Komal Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah, born 18th February 1951 in Kathmandu,
(daughter
of Lt.Gen. Shri Kendra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana), and has
issue.