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One eyewitness to the murders, Rajiv Shahi, son-in-law of Birendra's brother, went before the press last week to tell what he saw. TIME has contacted two other survivors who corroborate nearly every detail of Rajiv's story: that Crown Prince Dipendra entered the suite of rooms and...
The docile palace guards, trained more for fawning servitude than martial prowess, had no way of knowing that the Friday-night comings and goings of Nepal's huffy Crown Prince Dipendra, 29, would turn out to be the prelude to a dynastic catastrophe. When the Crown Prince and his cousin...
The Crown Prince and Paras had become increasingly close in the past few months, and the two shared a disregard for what they saw as plebeian laws. Nicknamed the Killer Prince, Paras was involved in at least four hit-and-run fatalities and several incidents of discharging firearms in public...
For now, the murderer of Vishnu ascends Vishnu's throne. This legally valid though morally repellent succession--along with widespread disbelief of the official version of events that has the Crown Prince acting alone--has precipitated a constitutional and societal crisis in an already fragile democracy. "If the King himself...
Say the words "British" or "English," and most people think "enduring": a royal succession that goes back to 1066, the language of Shakespeare, ancient universities, the mother of Parliaments. But the reality of Blair's post-imperial, globalized Britain - when the royals are tabloid fodder, hereditary peers have been kicked...