Devyani unites Ranas, Rajputs

After her own marriage to a scion of India’s aristocracy, Devyani Singh nee Rana, once known as the girl for whom Nepal’s Crown Prince Dipendra allegedly killed his entire family, is now playing matchmaker between India and Nepal.

Devyani, who hit the headlines earlier this year when she campaigned for her father Pashupati Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana in Nepal’s historic Constituent Assembly elections in April, is now unit ing the seniormost Rajput clan of India with the blue blooded Ranas of Nepal, who once ruled the Himalayan nation as hereditary premiers.

Preparations are on for one of the subcontinent’s most spectacular society weddings, where the groom’s procession will include an elephant, four horses and four camels. The groom, Virat Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, 27, is great-great grandson of Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepal’s longest-ruling Rana premier.

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