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...wedding had to be fit for a future king-and god. The bridegroom was Mahendra's son, Crown Prince Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, 24. He will not only succeed his father some day as monarch but also, the Nepalese believe, as the reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. The prince's bride, and also his second cousin, was Crown Princess Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Rana, 20, a member of the family that ruled...
Several persons associated with Harvard have been invited to the wedding of Birenda Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince of Nepal, which may prove to be the biggest Katmandu social event of the decade...
...invitations, printed in Nepali and English in red ink on heavy dark paper, read: "By Command of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Nepal on the auspicious occasion of the wedding of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Bierenda Bir Bikram Shah Dev with Her Royal Highness Princess Aishwarya Rajyalaxmi Devi, the Chairman of the wedding committee and Chief of the Royal Household Bada Casi Puspa Raj has the honour and pleasure to request the company of-at Narayanhiti Royal Palace...
...months ago King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva brusquely jailed Prime Minister B. P. Koirala, thus bringing an abrupt end to the first government ever to be elected democratically in Nepal. Then, the King explained ingeniously that he had acted because the Koirala government was "killing the people's democratic aspirations." Last week, talking to a TIME correspondent in Katmandu, the King gave a more candid reason: "The Koirala government was always trying to put me in an awkward position . . . It preached that the King was standing in the way of reform...
...moneylenders. In 1951 a revolution backed by India toppled the ruling Rana family, who for a hundred years had kept successive Kings virtual prisoners, and King Tribhuvan was restored to power. When the ailing Tribhuvan died in 1955, rule passed to his young (34) son, King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva...