Posted by: ramprasadneupane December 13, 2006
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Look at the list, 3 kings in a row, Rana bahadur, Girbanyuddha and Rajendra were all minors/infants when they started as a king. The widow queen mothers were regents at that time. This led to relationship between prime ministers and queen mothers, an eventually, janga bahadur's plan of 104 years of rule emerged. After prithivi narayan and pratap singh, there were no solid kingship until tribhuwan's regaining of power on 2007 BS. A weak monarchy led to destruction of the monarchy as a whole. I wish, Shriuti's daughter's were declared the heir to the throne and Queenship started in Nepal. After all law on heir to the throne has always been discriminatory. Why should not shrutis daughter get the throne? Shrutui's husband has been declared a 'kumar' i.e. a prince. About son of Birandra, I am not aware. But an elder brother of Birendra did exist until recent years. Rabindra Shah, he was Lyaite's son and thus not given king's position. It was also heard that he was mentally incompetent. A national weekly covered his funeral, which was conducted in a lay-man way. No royals or royality nor members of palace were present re!
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