As my mother heard the sad news on TV, she couldn't help remembering that a cousin brother of my nani was a friend of the queen and that the great lady had often helped him with the business.
She was a queen.
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Came across some rare photographs of Gayatri Devi at Flick:
Pic1, from a time when she was called Princess Ayesha of Cooch Behar.
Pic2, poise.
Pic3, Maharani Gayatri Devi at Rambagh Palace, 1943.
Pic4, After the wedding of Princess Gayatri Devi of Cooch Behar and Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur. Rampur Palace, 1940.
(uploader Doc Kazi has a great collection of pre-partition era photographs of Royals from India )
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Image: An article in The Hindu about Gayatri Devi's biographer Dharmendar Kanwar
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