Word: maharani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time went on, however, the young Maharajah's other hobbies gradually gave way to a more consuming interest: collecting an unrivaled harem of eight senior wives (who were called Maharani and were privileged to eat off gold dinnerware) and 150 concubines (who were called Rani and ate off silver). At the time of his death at 46 in 1938, His Exalted Highness' unflagging devotion to these helpmeets had earned him the informal title, "His Exhausted Highness." The memory of that devotion was perpetuated in a nursery of 52 sons and daughters...
Divorced. By Sir Pratapsinghrao, 47, one of the world's richest men (estimated yearly income: $8,000,000), who, as India's Gaekwar ("Keeper of the Cattle") of Baroda (1939-51), ruled a princedom of 8,000 sq. mi. with some 3,000,000 subjects: his second maharani, cigar-smoking Sita Devi, 41; after 13 years of marriage, one child (Prince Sayajirao); in Bombay...
...heiress who has married a title (Michael Rennie), Lana is described by her husband as "greedy, selfish, decadent, corrupt"-by which he means that she has a roving eye. As the story begins, Lana goes flouncing off to India to pick up a stallion from a maharani's stable. Enter Dr. Safti (Richard Burton), an untouchable who has been educated in England, and pretty soon the twain are meeting under every deodar that could stand the trip to California. Maybe it's yoga and maybe not, but Lana suddenly realizes what she has been needing all her life...
...first maharani is dead. Maharani No. 2 is living in retirement, back in Jaipur. The currently visible maharani is the sister of the fun-loving maharaja of Cooch-Behar, and a sportswoman in her own right: by her own reckoning, she has bagged some 25 tigers...
...outdid one another in their efforts to entertain the maharaja royally. As usual. Ambassador Ali came out ahead, with an elaborate garden party celebrating the maharaja's 43rd birthday. In the garden behind the receiving line he thoughtfully installed an attic fan. to cool the royal rear. The maharani gamely learned to dance the Cha Cha Cha, while her husband consumed four bottles of champagne and discoursed on the fine points of pigsticking. When the turbaned waiters brought out a large pink and white birthday cake, the band struck up "Happy Birthday," and the guests sang spiritedly until they...