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...Germain-en-Laye, outside Paris, last week the Ex-Maharaja of Indore, forced to abdicate by Britain for "immorality" (TIME, March 8, 1926), moved out of his $1,000,000 Chateau Holkar, offered it for sale. With his U. S. wife, former Miss Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, the Ex-Maharaja will live at a Paris hotel, will continue to give champagne suppers to whites and browns...
...Seattle, Wash., people who used to know and like famed Miss Nancy Anne Miller, now the Maharanee Sharmishthabai Holkar, wife of the ex-Maharaja of Indore (TIME, March 12, 1928), were shocked and indignant last week. They had supposed that she was honorably installed for life in Orient splendor, would never ride out again in anything less than an elephant's jeweled howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down...
...sacred coconut was blessed in India by the Hindu Primate, then carried by a Pundit to the Chateau Holkar on the outskirts of Paris, where it was broken and the virgin milk allowed to splash upon the naked girl-babe, who was christened Princess Sharada Raje Holkar, amid pious shouts of "Om! Shantih! Shantih"!! Shantih!!! "Oh! Peace! Peace!! Peace...
...Highness Maharaja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur left Christ Church College, Oxford, to assume the throne of Indore, having reached his majority. His father abdicated in 1926. He will be enthroned early next month, will control 9,519 square miles...
Born. To Sir Tukoji Rao Holkar, deposed Maharaja of Indore, and his Maharani, the erstwhile Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, in St. Germain, France; a swarthy daughter...