Princess Shruti of Nepal
| Princess Shruti | |||||
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| Princess of Nepal | |||||
 Princess Shruti at her wedding | |||||
| Spouse | Kumar Gorakh Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana | ||||
| Issue |
Girvani Rana Surangana Rana | ||||
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| House |
Shah dynasty (by birth) Rana dynasty (by marriage) | ||||
| Father | Birendra Bir Bikram Shah | ||||
| Mother | Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah | ||||
| Born |
15 October 1976 Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal | ||||
| Died |
1 June 2001 (aged 24) King Birendra Military Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal (victim of the Nepalese royal massacre) | ||||
| Religion | Hinduism | ||||
Princess Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah (Nepali: श्रुती राज्यलक्ष्मी देवी शाह)(16 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 Ishwori Sishu Vidhyalaya in Nepal, St. Mary's School in 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 Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, a member of an aristocratic Rana family of Nepal, descendants of Maharaja Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana on 7 May 1997. Princess Shruti had two daughters: Girvani (born 22 January 1998) and Surangana (born 2 October 2000).
Death
She, her mother, father, and brother Nirajan, and other six 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).[1]
- Commemorative Silver Jubilee Medal of King Birendra (31/01/1997).[2]
- Bisista Sewa Padak (1999).[3]
- Foreign Honours
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France : Grand Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honour (1994).[4] -
Germany : Dame Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1996).[5]
Ancestry
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