PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
An independent state, situated
on the north-eastern frontier of India. Under the Rana prime ministers
there was a council, consisting of the relations of the king, the raj
guru, the
generals, and a few other officials known as kajis and sirdars
and bhardars, which were consulted on all important business,
and
which formed a court of appeal for disputed cases from the courts of
law. Rulers
were...
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj PRITHVI NARAYAN
SHAH
Dev, 1st Maharaja of Nepal 1768/1775, born 7th January 1723,
originally Raja of Gorkha
1743/1768, he
became the first King of
Nepal when he conquered the three main kingdoms in Nepal in 1768 and
progressively the rest of the smaller principalities;
married 1stly, Rani Inder Kumari, married 2ndly, Rani Narendra Lakshmi
Devi,
committed sati
January 1775, and had issue. He died 11th January 1775.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj Pratap Singh
[Pratapsimha Shah] (by
Narendra Lakshmi Devi) (qv)
- Chautarya Bahadur Shah (by
Narendra Lakshmi Devi), born June 1754 (Ashadh,
1814VE), Regent of
Nepal 1778/1779 and 1785/1794 (dismissed in April 1794); he was
appointed Subedar of Jajarkot on Baisakh
Badi 15, 1854; he was granted
the title of Ghung by the Chinese Emperor in 1790;
married (amongst others), January 1786 (Magh 10, 1842VE), a
daughter of Raja Mahadatta
Sen of Palpa. He died sp June
1797 (Ashadh
14, 1854VE).
- Rani Vilasa Kumari, married in 1767,
Rajkumar (later Raja) Ranabhima Shah of Salyan.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj PRATAP SINGH SHAH
Dev, 2nd Maharaja of Nepal 1775/1777, born 1751, crowned on 25th
January 1775, continued
the
annexation of the petty kingdoms of
Nepal begun by his father so that by 1790 the boundaries of Nepal
stretched from Bhutan to the Sutlej river,
and from Tibet to the British provinces; married (a), HH Maharani
Rajendra Lakshmi Devi from Palpa, born 1751, acting Regent of Nepal
1777/1778 and
1779/1785, died 13th July 1785 at Kathmandu, married
(b), Maiju Rani, a Newar lady of the wrong
caste,
daughter of Biranarasimha, former Minister of Lalitpura, she committed sati
December 1777, and had issue. He died 17th
November
1777
- Maharajkumar Nagendra Shah (Rajendra
Lakshmi Devi), born 1774,
died 1774.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj Rana Bahadur Shah
(by Rajendra Lakshmi Devi) (qv)
- Maharajkumar Bidur Shahi (by
Maiju Rani), appointed Chautarya in May 1794. He died
(beheaded) 26th April 1806 at Bhandarkhal.
- Maharajkumar Sher Bahadur Shah (by
Maiju Rani), born 9th January 1778,
appointed Chautariya in May 1794. He died
25th April 1806.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj RANA BAHADUR SHAH
Dev, 3rd Maharaja of Nepal 1777/1798, born about 27th June 1775 (or
25th May 1775) (Ashadh
11,
1832VE), crowned 1st December 1777, assumed power in April 1794,
Regent of Nepal
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. He was forced to turn his
throne
over to his son on 13th February 1798, and retired to
Banaras as an ascete taking the name Parama Nirgunanand Swami.
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
was granted the title of Wang by the Chinese Emperor in 1790;
he
married 1stly, 1789, Rani Raj Rajeswari Vidya Lakshmi [Rajeshwari
Devi], sister of Raja Siddhi Pratap Shah of Gulmi, and grand daughter
of Raja Shiva Shah of Gulmi, Regent of Nepal
1799/1800
and 1802/1804, died sp 4th May 1806, married 2ndly, 1791,
Bhogya Rani
Subarna Prabha,
Regent of Nepal
1800/1802, married 3rdly, January 1797, Rani Kantavati Mati, daughter
of a Brahmin of the Mishra caste, died 31st November 1799 (Kartik
Sudi 4,
1856VE),
married 4thly, Rani Chandravati, married 5thly, Rani Amar Rajeshwari
Devi, married 6thly, 1804, Rani Lalita
Tripura
Sundari Devi (née Thapa), born 1793/4, Regent of Nepal
1806/1832,
died
1st April 1832, and had issue. He died 25th April 1806.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj Girvanyuddha Bikram
Shah (by Kantivati) (qv)
- Maharajkumar Ranendra Bikram Shah (by Subarba Prabha)
- Maharajkumar Ranadyat Shah, Chief Chautarya, born
1796/1797.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj GIRVANYUDDHA
BIKRAM
SHAH Dev, 4th Maharaja of Nepal 1799/1816, born 27th October 1797 (Sunday,
Ashwin 12,
1854VE),
crowned 11th March 1799; married
(a), Senior Queen [?Rani Siddhi Lakshmi Devi], committed sati
November 1816, married (b),
Junior
Queen [?Rani Gorakh Rajya Lakshmi Devi],
born 1798, died 1816, married (c), HH Maharani Siddhi Lakshmi Devi,
died April 1832, and had issue. He died 22nd November 1816.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj Rajendra Bikram Shah
(by HH Maharani Siddhi Lakshmi Devi)
- Maharajkumari Saraswati Kumari
Devi, married Raja Gajraj Singh, Raja of Bajhang,
and had issue.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj RAJENDRA BIKRAM
SHAH Dev
1816/1847, born 1813, crowned 8th December 1816; married
(amongst others) (a), Rani Samrajya Lakshmi Devi, born 1814, died 6th
October
1842 (1841?), married (b), Rani
Rajya
Lakshmi Devi, born 1815, daughter of Shri Prashu Shah, and had issue.
He died 1881.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj Surendra Bikram Shah
(by Samrajya) (qv)
- Maharajkumar Devendra Bikram Shah (by
Samrajya), born about January 1837, died 24th July 1837.
- Maharajkumar Upendra Bikram Shah (by
Samrajya?), married and had issue.
- Rajkumar Dhirendra Bikram Shah, married two
daughters of Maharaja Sri Tin Sir Jung
Bahadur Rana, and had issue.
- Shri Bhupendra Bikram Shah, married and had issue.
- Prince Mohan Bikram Shah II [Rama Raja], Raja of Ramnagar, married and had issue.
He died 1947.
- Maharajkumar Ranendra Bikram Shah (by
Rajya)
- Maharajkumar Birendra Bikram Shah (by
Rajya), married a daughter of Raja Prahlad Sen, Raja of Ramnagar, and
had issue.
- Prince Mohan Bikram Shah I, Raja of
Ramnagar -/1912, born about 1852, married 4thly, before 1893, Rani
Chhatra
Kumari Devi, daughter of Thakur Puran Chandra Khan of Garunkot, Nepal,
and had adoptive issue. He died sp
18th April 1912.
- (A) Prince Mohan Bikram Shah II [Rama Raja],
Raja of Ramnagar, succeeded by adoption, married and had issue (see
above).
- Maharajkumari (name unknown) Lakshmi Devi, the
territory of Satsayakudi was granted as her dowry and made a part of
Bajura Rajya; she married 1844, Raja Bikram Bahadur Shah of Bajura.
- Maharajkumari (name unknown) Lakshmi Devi, born
1834, married the Raja of Jumla.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj SURENDRA BIKRAM
SHAH Dev, 5th Maharaja of Nepal 1847/1881, born 1829, crowned 12th
May 1847; married 1stly, in May 1843, died in October 1850 [the Senior
Maharani, daughter of the Raja of Gulmi], and
had issue. He died 17th May 1881.
- HRH Crown Prince Trailokya, born 30th
November 1847,
married 1stly, HRH Princess 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
[HRH Princess
Lalita Rajya
Lakshmi Devi], Regent of Nepal 1881/1893, daughter
of Maharaja Sri Tin Sir Jung Bahadur Rana, and had issue. He died 1878.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj Prithvi Bir Bikram
Shah (by Princess
Lalita) (qv)
- Maharajkumar Yakshya Bikram Shah
- Maharajkumar Rana Bikram Shah
- Maharajkumar Jhulendra Bikram Shah
- HRH Prince Narendra Bikram Shah, born in December 1848,
married a daughter of
Maharaja Sri Tin
Sir
Jung Bahadur Rana, and had issue.
- HRH Prince (name unknown)
Bikram Shah, born 22nd September 1851.
- Daughter (by the Senior Maharani), born 1848, married 8th
May 1854, married the eldest son of Maharaja Sri
Tin Sir Jung Bahadur Rana, born 1846.
- Daughter, born 1842?, married 1848, Maharajkumar Jagat
Jung Rana, son
of Maharaja Sri
Tin Sir Jung Bahadur Rana.
- Daughter, married Maharajkumar Jeet Jung Rana, son of
Maharaja Sri Tin
Sir Jung
Bahadur
Rana.
- HH Maharaja Dhiraj PRITHVI Bir Bikram
Shah Dev, 6th Maharaja of Nepal 1881/1911, born 18th August
1875, crowned 1st December 1881; 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, and had issue as well as further issue by a 'kept
wife'. 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.
- Rani 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.
- Rani 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.
- Rani (name unknown) Rajya
Lakshmi Devi, married Gen. Shri Sur Shumsher
Jung Bahadur Rana, son of Gen. Sri
Gehendra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, and had issue.
- Rajkumar Sagar Bikram Shah [Sahebju
Sagar Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur
Shah](by a
kept wife), he was the recipient of a Bakas-Birta
grant of about 1,669 bighas of cultivated
lands in Mahottari district in 1912.
- HM Swasti Sri Giriraja
Chakra Chudamani Nara-Narayanetyadi
Wiwidha Whajamana Manonnata Projjwala-nepala-taramahadhipati Shri Man
Maharajadhirja
Sri Sri Sri Maharaja TRIBHUVAN Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Dev
Bahadur
Shamsher
Junga Dewanam Sada Samara-wijayinam, 7th King of Nepal 1911/1955, born
30th June 1906 (#1),
crowned 20th February 1913; married 1stly, HM Queen Kanti Rajya Lakshmi
Devi, born 1906,
died 12th April 1973, daughter of Rajkumar Arjun Singh of the house of
Raja Anrup Singh of Chatara, Barhgaon, District
Sitapur-Oudh, married 2ndly, HM Queen Ishwari Rajya Lakshmi
Devi, daughter of Rajkumar Arjun Singh of the house of Raja Anrup Singh
of Chatara, Barhgaon, District
Sitapur-Oudh, (sister of the Senior Queen) (#2),
married (a), Sarala Manandhar, and had issue, as well as further 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,
died 5th December 2007, 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 about
1946,
awarded the Suprashiddha Prabala Gorkha Dakshin Babu (First
Class) medal on 23rd October 2001; married to
Mr.Chester, and has issue.
- 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, 8th King of
Nepal 1955/1972,
born 11th
June 1920 in
Kathmandu, crowned 2nd May 1956; 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, as well as further issue.
He died 31st January 1972
in
Kathmandu.
- HRH Princess Shanti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah, born 1941,
educated at the Loreto Convent in Darjeeling and Tribhuvan University
in Kathmandu; member of the Rajya Sabha, and was associated withe
several charities, including the Nepal Leprosy Relief Association; she
married Kumar
Deepak Jung Bahadur Singh, Raja of Bajang,
and had issue, two sons and one daughter. 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 of Jumli, born 1943, died 1st June 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, HRH Princess 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, awarded the Suprashiddha
Prabala Gorkha Dakshin Bahu (First Class) medal (23.10.2001);
married
Shri Rajiv Shahi.
- HRH Princess Sitashma Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, awarded
the Suprashiddha Prabala Gorkha Dakshin Bahu (First Class)
medal (23.10.2001); married
5th/6th March 2003 at Jeevan Kunj,
Shri Abhinesh Shah, died 29th October 2008 at the Norvic Hospital in
Kathmandu, aged 35, son of Shri Arjun Jung
Shah, and his wife, Rani Asha Rajya Lakshmi Devi, and has issue, one
daughter.
- Princess Arshia Shah, born 2007.
- HRH Princess Dilasha Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, awarded
the Suprashiddha Prabala Gorkha Dakshin Bahu (First Class)
medal (23.10.2001); married
9th December
2003,
Shri Adarsha Bikram Rana, son of Shri Kishor Bikram Rana, and his wife,
the late
Rani Rama
Rajya
Laxmi Devi.
- Miss Ushaanaa Laela Shah (by Mrs. Shirley Shah), born
22nd
July 1994.
- HRH Princess Shobha Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah, born 1950,
awarded the
Jyotirmaya Subikhyat Trishakti Patta (First Class) medal on 23rd
October 2001; married Kumar
Mohan Bahadur Shahi of Rukumkot, awarded the Suprashiddha Prabala
Gorkha
Dakshin Babu (First Class) medal on 23rd October 2001.
- Rajkumar Rabindra Shah (by a kept wife).
- HM King BIRENDRA BIR BIKRAM SHAH Dev, 9th King of
Nepal 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 B.A., born 15th
October
1976, educated at Mayo Girl’s College, Ajmer, India and at St Mary’s
High School, Kathmandu; she earned a black-belt in judo from the
National Police Training Centre in March 1999; married
8th May 1997 in Kathmandu, Kumar Gorakh Shumsher Jung Bahadur
Rana
of Nepal, and had issue, two daughters.
She died 1st
June
2001, at the Narayanhity Royal Palace.
- HRH Prince Niranjan Bir Bikram Shah Dev, born 6th
November
1978, educated at the Kanti Ishwari Shishu Vidyalaya, Budhanilkantha
School and St Xavier’s School, he briefly attended Eton College in
England and returned to Nepal to study for a Bachelor’s in Business
Administration (BBA) at the Kathmandu School of Management; he was a
junior swimming champion at the Budhanilkantha School; died
unmarried 1st
June 2001, at the Narayanhity Royal Palace.
- HM King DIPENDRA BIR BIKRAM SHAH Dev,
10th King of Nepal [1.6.2001] - [4.6.2001], born 27th June 1971, died sp
on 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 about 1974, 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 Rani Bodh Kumari, died 2nd June 2001,
cremated
3rd June 2001,
and had issue.
- Kumar Khadga Bikram Shah, born 1942, 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, he started his career as a clerk
in the British embassy; he became first member secretary of the
National
Sports Council, founder President of the Nepal Mountaineering
Association 1973/1990, Executive Director
at the Centre for Nepal
and Asian
Studies (C.N.A.S.), Tribhuvan
University 1983/89; married HRH Princess Sharada Rajya Laxmi Devi, born
1942,
died 1st June 2001 (see above). He died 1st June 2001.
- Lalit Bikram Shah, born 1944, 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, one son and one 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.