Saturday, December 5, 2009

Royal welcome in Orissa waits Gyanendra

odishatoday.com, Dec 4, 2009
Bhubaneswar (Orissa) : The entire Royal fraternity in Orissa has geared up to accord a red carpet welcome to former Nepal King Gyanedra.

The former King and his wife Komal will remain in the State from five days starting from December 8. They would attend a marriage ceremony of their family relative and king of erstwhile Mayurbhanj royal family Prabin Chandra Bhanj Deo.

Bhanj Deo is State’s Sports and Youth Services Minister.

King Tribhuvan, Gyanendra's grandfather, had two queens who bore him three sons and four daughters. One of them, Princess Bharati, married the former king of Mayurbhanj in India's Odisha State, Pradeep Chandra Bhanj Deo.

One of their daughters, the Kolkata-born Padma Manjari, married a scion of the former royal family of Kalahandi in Orissa and erstwhile Janata Dal leader Udit Pratap Deo.


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