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...were very avant-garde. They had an amazing art collection by the '30s, and they were the first family to build an air-conditioned palace," he says, going on to describe the Labradors that jump in the skiff ferrying guests to nearby islands and temples, and host Prince Richard Holkar, son of the late Maharajah of Indore, who has written a cookbook and serves "marvelous gingerbread cakes...
Died. His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao ("Junior") Holkar Bahadur, Maharaja of Indore, 53, progressive-minded, Oxford-educated ruler of 1,500,000 worshipful subjects from 1926 until his pensioning-off by the Indian government in 1948; of cancer; in New Delhi. Of low caste despite his princely rank (he was descended from a land-grabbing shepherd), the Maharaja devoted large chunks of an estimated prewar income of $70 million a year to the delights of shikar (hunting), zenana (the harem), and the support of the two American wives whom he divorced in Reno, but sponsored enough...
...world's fattest trade union, facing a major crisis, last week showed no more solidarity than a flock of peacocks in a thunderstorm. India's Chamber of Princes (an undisciplined brotherhood of rajas, maharajas and nawabs, with a stray Gaekwar and Holkar) held its annual conference in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel. The princes looked out over the bay and pondered a prospect that many a union man has faced before-technological unemployment...
Married. H. H. Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao ("Junior") Holkar Bahadur of Indore, 34, glossy, multimillionaire ruler of 1,513,966 souls; and Euphemia Watt Crane, 29; he for the third time, she for the second; a few hours after his divorce from Marguerite Lawlor Branyen, onetime Minneapolis nurse; in Reno...
Established in Reno for the stated purpose of divorcing the former Marguerite Lawler Branyen of Minneapolis is a "Mr. Holkar," who married her four years ago with a high-flown flourish: "Without mental peace I cannot properly discharge my duties as a ruler." Slim, sleek "Mr. Holkar" is His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur ("His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, one-quarter-better-than-anyone-else, beautiful King Shepherd, Brave Warrior"), fabulously wealthy Maharaja of Indore, 34, ruler of some 1,325,000 souls, possessor of the first air-conditioned palace in India...