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Devyani Rana is the second daughter of Pashupati Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana and Rani Usha Raje Scindia, daughter of Jiwaji Rao Scindia, the last maharaja of Gwalior, and the wife of Aishwarya Singh.
May 1, 2021 · The massacre reportedly followed an argument between Dipendra and his parents, who objected to his plans to marry local aristocrat Devyani Rana. It is believed Dipendra was threatened with being disinherited if he continued with the match and this may have been what drove him to murder on June 1, 2001.
Feb 11, 2017 · Devyani left Nepal within a week of the massacre on June 1, 2001, in which Crown Prince Dipendra, the man who wanted to marry her, allegedly shot nine members of the royal family, including his parents — King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya — allegedly over the latter’s opposition to the match.
Dipendra wanted to marry Devyani Rana, whom he had met in the United Kingdom. Some allege that, due to her mother's family being from lower-class royals of India and her father's political alliances, the royal family objected.
While attending school in the UK, he fell for Devyani Rana, a Nepalese woman from an important family. He wanted to marry her, but his mother—the Queen—disallowed it because Devyani’s grandmother was a concubine.
Devyani Rana, right, believed to be the fiancee of Nepal’s Crown Prince Dipendra, sits along with her mother Usharaje Rana, center, and unidentified sister, left, in Gawlior, centeral India, in ...
May 21, 2002 · Devyani Rana fled the country immediately, and remains in exile. She is keeping a low profile in London, where journalists from all over the world are trying to persuade her to tell her story.
Jun 1, 2024 · Translated transcript of the testimony of Devyani Rana recorded by Nepal’s Ambassador India Bhekh Bahadur Thapa on 11 June 2001, and dispatched to the High-level Investigation Committee chaired by House Speaker Taranath Ranabhat in Kathmandu.
Jun 4, 2001 · DEVYANI RANA was almost perfect. The young woman at the heart of the row which led to the murders of the King and Queen of Nepal is beautiful, intelligent and decorous.
Jun 15, 2001 · Then, after being escorted to his bed chamber, he called his girlfriend, Devyani Rana, three times from his mobile phone before returning to a dinner party in combat dress ''armed on both...
