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Former Nepal king to leave palace today
by Sanjay Jha | June 10, 2008 at 08:59 pm | 169 views | 2 comments | 2 recommendations
After being dethroned from kingdom and asked to leave the royal palace, Nepal's ex-king Gyanendra Shah is all set to leave the Narain Haiti Palace on Wednesday. The Palace has been house to 5 generations of his dynasty.
Nepal's former king Gyanendra has spent his last night in the palace compound in Kathmandu which has been home to the royal family for more than 100 years.
He is to move to a new residence in a forest outside the city, which the government says will be a temporary one until he can find a new private home.
The palace is to become a museum and Gyanendra's crown and royal sceptre are expected to become government property.
Last month, Nepal's Maoist-led assembly voted to abolish the monarchy.
Gyanendra Shah, now an ordinary citizen, will give a press conference before he and his wife Komal, the former queen, move to Nagarjun, in the north-western suburbs of Kathmandu, officials say.
Correspondents say that the residence at Nagarjun will barely be a comedown for the former king.
June 10, 2008 at 08:59 pm by Sanjay Jha, 169 views, 2 comments
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at 07:54 on June 11th, 2008
With Gyendra and his playboy son Paras as unpopular as they are looks like the best hope is that Gyendra´s grandson might one day return to the throne as some kind of cultural patron...
at 07:55 on June 11th, 2008
Sanjay Jha, I like this story. It's good stuff.