Word: maharajadhiraja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creditable version of the Star-Spangled Banner. There were numerous dinners, receptions, reviews, movie showings and sightseeing tours. Formal afternoon clothes, as well as white ties and tails, were frequently worn. But the highlights of the visit were two official durbars. For the first durbar Nepal's King, Maharajadhiraja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shum Shere Jung Deva,* who rarely appears in public, officially presided in a long baroque hall hung with pictures of his predecessors. Satterthwaite presented a letter from President Truman to his "Great and Good Friend," which stated the U.S. "recognized the absolute...
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...
Died. Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab, 59, the Maharajadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan, once reputed to be the British Empire's biggest taxpayer; of heart disease; in Burdwan, India. Senior Hindu Prince of Bengal, he had an annual income estimated...