PHOTOS: Gayatri Devi: A royal life - Los Angel Tim

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• 312 GAYATRI DEVI STOCK PHOTOS AND HIGH-R PICTUR
• STUNNG FACTS ABOUT GAYATRI DEVI, THE LOST MAHARANI
• GAYATRI DEVI: INDIA’S LEGENDARY PRCS PASS AWAY
• PHOTOS: GAYATRI DEVI: A ROYAL LIFE VIEW SLISHOW DEVI POS NEXT TO A CTOM-BUILT ROLLS-ROYCE THIS UNDATED PHOTO TAKEN JAIPUR. THE ATH OF DEVI, WHO PERSONIFIED A LOST ERA OF ARISTOCRATIC PRIVILEGE AND EXOTIC GLAMOUR INDIA, HAS SPARKED A BTER HERANCE DISPUTE AMONG HER HEIRS.  (AFP/GETTY IMAG) IN THIS PHOTO TAKEN JAIPUR ON JAN. 26, 1961, BRA’S QUEEN ELIZABETH II, CENTER, IS FLANKED BY DEVI AND HER HBAND, THE MAHARAJA. AT THE FAR LEFT IS ELIZABETH’S HBAND, PRCE PHILIP, WHO KILLED THE TIGER.  (AFP/GETTY IMAG) DEVI, LEFT, QUIR ABOUT THE WELFARE OF A CHILD DURG A 2006 POLO MATCH JAIPUR.  (YIRMIYAN ARTHUR / ASSOCIATED PRS) 1/3SHOW SLI INFORMATN PHOTOS: GAYATRI DEVI: A ROYAL LIFE
• GAYATRI VI STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• 28 VTAGE PICTUR OF RAJMATA GAYATRI DEVI, ONE OF THE MOST BETIFUL WOMEN HISTORY HAS SEEN
• MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI, INDIA'S 'QUEEN MOTHER' AND STYLE IN, DI
• MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI - LIFE PICTUR
• LIFE AND TIM OF RAJMATA GAYATRI DEVI – THE DERT QUEEN
• THE 'UNSEEN' ROYAL BETY: NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PICTUR OF GAYATRI DEVI HER VAR RNATNS
• WHY DID INDIRA GANDHI HAVE GAYATRI DEVI JAILED DURG EMERGENCY?WE TAKE A LOOK AT GAYATRI DEVI’S TIME PRISON, AND HER RELATNSHIP WH INDIRA GANDHI. VISHNU GOPATHUPDATED: 23 MAY 2022, 7:30 AM ISTNEWS6 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY
• THE UNSEEN PICTUR GIVE YOU A LOOK AT MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI’S LIFE
• GAYATRI DEVI: THE GOLN QUEEN OF JAIPUR
• GODSS GAYATRI DEVI IMAG
• GAYATRI DEVI'S FAL JOURNEY
• A BATTLE OF WILLS: GAYATRI DEVI'S £250M LEGACY
• 312 GAYATRI DEVI STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• 280 GAYATRI DEVI PHOTOS STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• 28 RAJMATA GAYATRI DEVI FILE PHOTOS STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• RAJMATA GAYATRI DEVI: LIFE PICTUR

312 GAYATRI DEVI STOCK PHOTOS AND HIGH-R PICTUR

From her illic love to her months spent behd bars, Gayatri Devi’s begng and end were soaked sndal. This b of romantic rebelln ed an immediate high society uproar, and by the time Gayatri me to the world 1919, still hadn’t lmed down.

At the time, the royal fay Cooch Behar were liberal and dulgent wh their children, but no one took to eedom que like Gayatri. Everythg may have looked glterg on the surface of Gayatri’s life, but nothg uld be further om the tth.

STUNNG FACTS ABOUT GAYATRI DEVI, THE LOST MAHARANI

Nicknamed “Jai, ” at 21 years old he was already one of the foremost polo players the world—and although Gayatri had already met the lik of Prce Aly Khan and Douglas Fairbanks Sr., she was particularly starstck by the handsome and athletic ler. While Gayatri sttted around the Maharaja and tried her bt to act like an adult, she end up gettg to a mortifyg suatn. While Jai had been dulgent wh the children on his vis and let them w at tennis gam and other activi, the overnfint Gayatri assumed she was jt that good, and that’s why she won.

The next time polo season me around, Jai vised Gayatri’s fay aga—and what a difference a year mak. Gayatri may have still been very unrage, but that didn’t stop the Maharaja om noticg her blossomg good looks this time around. Jai had been eyeg her all trip, and after he won the India Polo Associatn Champnship, Gayatri’s mother promised him “anythg you want ” as a iendly prize.

GAYATRI DEVI: INDIA’S LEGENDARY PRCS PASS AWAY

He turned right to Gayatri, who had been wag on the sil, and said he wanted her—jt her—to e to dner wh him that very night. While at dner one of the most sophistited rtrants Calcutta, poor Gayatri showed her age yet aga. At one pot, Gayatri and her fay were visg him Jaipur when he cid to take her out on a solo horse ri.

Although they were both betiful, wealthy royals, Gayatri and Jai were also more than a ltle star-crossed. For one, their home liv uldn’t have been more different: Jai’s other two wiv both strictly practiced purdah, where women hid om view and kept themselv separate om men, while Gayatri enjoyed an pennt upbrgg that chafed agast the very tradns.

In the end, the Maharaja waed until Gayatri was a whoppg 16 years old before he proposed to her. Throughout the heady days, Gayatri knew she had to wre her mother and nfs that she was engaged to the Maharaja. Thkg she already knew, Jai broached the subject wh the dowager, who immediately grew nfed and sisted Gayatri had told her nothg.

PHOTOS: GAYATRI DEVI: A ROYAL LIFE VIEW SLISHOW DEVI POS NEXT TO A CTOM-BUILT ROLLS-ROYCE THIS UNDATED PHOTO TAKEN JAIPUR. THE ATH OF DEVI, WHO PERSONIFIED A LOST ERA OF ARISTOCRATIC PRIVILEGE AND EXOTIC GLAMOUR INDIA, HAS SPARKED A BTER HERANCE DISPUTE AMONG HER HEIRS.  (AFP/GETTY IMAG) IN THIS PHOTO TAKEN JAIPUR ON JAN. 26, 1961, BRA’S QUEEN ELIZABETH II, CENTER, IS FLANKED BY DEVI AND HER HBAND, THE MAHARAJA. AT THE FAR LEFT IS ELIZABETH’S HBAND, PRCE PHILIP, WHO KILLED THE TIGER.  (AFP/GETTY IMAG) DEVI, LEFT, QUIR ABOUT THE WELFARE OF A CHILD DURG A 2006 POLO MATCH JAIPUR.  (YIRMIYAN ARTHUR / ASSOCIATED PRS) 1/3SHOW SLI INFORMATN PHOTOS: GAYATRI DEVI: A ROYAL LIFE

After this awkward exchange, the Maharaja sent an angry telegram to Gayatri mandg why she hadn’t said anythg. Both Gayatri and her mother were on edge around the official royal fay, wh the dowager fearg hurt feelgs on all sis if her dghter went through wh the marriage.

After a sleepls night where Gayatri threatened aga and aga to n to her love’s si only to have her mother stop her, the fay fally got another telegram. After Jai’s bsh wh ath, the uple fast-tracked their marriage plans, ignorg the ntued prottatns of everyone Gayatri’s fay, now cludg not jt her mother but her olr siblgs, too.

GAYATRI VI STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Her mother, apparently feelg sperate, snapped that Gayatri was the “newt addn to the Jaipur nursery, ” while her sister Ila lled her “spels” whenever she was around her fiancé. Gayatri’s brother had grown close to Jai himself over the years, and he seemed a me jealo that his sister had ptured his BFF’s heart. As a rult, she uldn’t expect him to stay fahful to her (and om hts Gayatri’s memoirs, he didn’t).

Jt bare weeks before her 21st birthday, Gayatri married her Prce Charmg somethg that was both a fairy tale weddg and a huge extravaganza.

28 VTAGE PICTUR OF RAJMATA GAYATRI DEVI, ONE OF THE MOST BETIFUL WOMEN HISTORY HAS SEEN

When was all over, Gayatri was a married woman and a Maharani, and the newlyweds set off on their honeymoon.

Gayatri and her brother Indraj, who was acpanyg her for this leg of the trip, were eply alarmed. Once Calcutta, the newlyweds elected to spend a night at Gayatri’s childhood home—only, the moment she stepped down om her transport, she knew nothg was ever gog be the same.

Aga actg unr the sway of purdah, her Jaipur attendants immediately hered any male servants out of her sight, even though, as Gayatri remembered, “I had known most of them all my life.

MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI, INDIA'S 'QUEEN MOTHER' AND STYLE IN, DI

The next morng, Gayatri’s brother fally left their party to let the new uple have their honeymoon earnt.

Even her faiar surroundgs, Gayatri uld feel how different thgs were now, and she mt have worried she ma a mistake. Shortly after the honeymoon, Gayatri had to face a dread task: To meet Jai’s send wife Jo for the first time sce she had married the Maharaja. Although Gayatri’s new iend Jo was only three years olr than her and morn by many of the culture’s standards, Jo also uldn’t even let a doctor exame her, stead needg to e her maids to act as go-betweens while the medic stood the halls.

Throughout her time followg purdah, Gayatri had a secret weapon: Jai really was head over heels love wh her. Wh Jai away and his send wife Jo tied up wh funeral arrangements, Gayatri was left to look after the gaggle of children around the palace, all while tryg to make their Christmas Eve as mimally morbid as possible.

MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI - LIFE PICTUR

That year, the Brish partned a newly pennt India—and this had a direct effect on Gayatri and the royal fay. Still bouncg her toddler on her leg, Gayatri got word that her brother Indraj had passed—and once more, was no ordary mise. In the 1960s, the betiful Gayatri Devi cid she wanted to stop merely beg a sociale and start enterg the enzied ay of polics India.

In 1968, her beloved mother passed at the age of 76, and although Gayatri was due to vis her on her athbed, she had to lay her flight by one day—the very day that Indira Devi passed.

As Gayatri’s hband Jai entered his late 50s, his body started slowg down and he even suffered a d heart attack.

LIFE AND TIM OF RAJMATA GAYATRI DEVI – THE DERT QUEEN

One day 1970, Gayatri was watchg him a polo match when she took her ey off the field for a moment. In shock, Gayatri plead wh the medic to give her a different diagnosis, but he uld only shake his head. The next days passed a blur of tears and nsolatn for Gayatri, as sympathi poured om everyone om Prce Philip to Jai’s old garner.

In her memoirs, Gayatri herself uld barely discs her feelgs durg this time, and when she watched om her wdow as Jai’s funeral pyre went up, she remembered that “grief seized me almost like a physil spasm. In the middle of The Emergency, ernment officials shockgly had Gayatri arrted, cg false accatns of illegal tax activi.

THE 'UNSEEN' ROYAL BETY: NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PICTUR OF GAYATRI DEVI HER VAR RNATNS

And former Maharani or not, they hardly gave her special treatment: Gayatri spent five months the notor Tihar Jail, one of the largt prison plex the world. After a youth the spotlight, the widowed Gayatri spent her fal years largely secln, avoidg polics entirely and attendg only the most exclive parti—and even then, only when she felt like . Rajmata (or Queen Mother) Gayatri Devi, of the erstwhile prcely state of Jaipur India, passed away at age 90.

WHY DID INDIRA GANDHI HAVE GAYATRI DEVI JAILED DURG EMERGENCY?WE TAKE A LOOK AT GAYATRI DEVI’S TIME PRISON, AND HER RELATNSHIP WH INDIRA GANDHI. VISHNU GOPATHUPDATED: 23 MAY 2022, 7:30 AM ISTNEWS6 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY

Gayatri Devi was one of the few people remag who uld vividly scribe the life of fabulo wealth of the old fdal Indian royalty (that led over nearly 40% of the Indian subntent at the time of Indian pennce), as well as full participatn the life of a morn Indian mocracy after the untry’s eedom om the Brish le 1947. In the 1940s when Gayatri Devi got married “there were so many guts that her father’s palace Bengal uld not acmodate them.

Among the first royals to jo the mocratic procs of electns, Gayatri Devi won the Lok Sabha (Indian parliament) electns 1962, 1967 and 1971 nttg on Swatantra Party ticket. Gayatri Devi studied at the Nobel-lreate poet Rabdranath Tagore’s famo Santiketan Bengal, and later Lsanne, Swzerland.

THE UNSEEN PICTUR GIVE YOU A LOOK AT MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI’S LIFE

She started schools for girls Jaipur, most proment of which is the Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls’ Public School. Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur, a succsful polician, an excellent rir and a polo player, an eternal bety, who will always be etched our memory for her remarkable life, that fied nventns.

After the partn of India 1947, Gayatri Devi ran for Parliament 1962 and won the nstuency the Lok Sabha the world’s largt landsli w. Opnated, strong, and rebell- Gayatri Devi lived an unrtraed life her palace staffed wh five hundred servants.

Maharani Gayatri Devi beme a member of the royal fay of Jaipur after marryg the Maharaja of Jaipur beme a popular polician after India's pennce om Bra. Vogue IndiaMaharani Gayatri Devi - Life PicturBy Megha Sharma23 May 2019Gayatri Devi1/10Native Share2/10Native Share3/10Native Share4/10Native Share5/10Native Share6/10Native Share7/10Native Share8/10Native ShareCARGalleryJAIPURRead MoreCulture & LivgThe unseen pictur give you a look at Maharani Gayatri Devi’s lifeBy Megha SharmaCulture & LivgRememberg the legacy of Maharani Gayatri Devi on her 100th birthdayBy Dharmendar KanwarCulture & LivgTake a look at the r Maharani Gayatri Devi last droveBy Jay ModiWeddgsFrom Maharani Gayatri Devi to Meghan Markle: 43 of the bt royal weddg outfs of all time By Sam Rogers. Once voted one of the most betiful woman the world by Vogue, Gayatri Devi, the Rajmata has worn many hats throughout her life.

GAYATRI DEVI: THE GOLN QUEEN OF JAIPUR

While is certa that her bety opened doors which would otherwise not open so easily, Gayatri Devi never ed her bety rd to w hearts. Gayatri Devi and Man Sgh II joed the Swantatra Party for they were imprsed by a polil group that was speakg agast the State ntrol and Congrs Party’s enomic polici.

GODSS GAYATRI DEVI IMAG

Soon after this, Gayatri Devi retired om polics and published her tobgraphy ‘A Prcs Remembers’ 1976. The 'unseen' Royal bety: Stunng pictur of Gayatri Devi reveal her many rol as a wife, mother and fashn in Published: 00:43 BST, 18 January 2013 | Updated: 00:43 BST, 18 January 2013 It is highly unlikely that an addrs wh a gut list readg Lord Mountbatten, Prce Charl and Jacquele Kennedy needs a book to tell s worth to s prospective clients.

) But wh a history datg back to over two centuri, the palace was also the home of late Rajmata Gayatri Devi, a woman scribed by Vogue as one of the most betiful the world. Gayatri Devi posg for a picture at a stud London the early 1950s Gayatri wh Queen Elizabeth 1961 (bottom left), holdg a bra 1940 (top right) "It was her (Gayatri Devi's) wish that somebody should wre a book about Rambagh, " said Rani Vidya Devi, wife of Maharaja Jai Sgh, and a nfidante of the late royal, durg the lnch of the ffee table book Rambagh Palace the Capal on Wednday night. A beamg Maharani Gayatri Devi wh hband Maharaja Sawai Man Sgh on a vatn Spa the late 1950s Gayatri Devi her office after jog C Rajagopalachari's Swatantra Party the 1960s (From left) Author of Rambagh Palace, Dharmendra Kanwar, Rani Vidya Devi, Maharaja Jai Sgh and Raymond Bickson, MD and CEO Taj hotels, rorts and palac The close associatn which the wrer shared wh Gayatri Devi (Kanwar had -thored a book on cuise wh her) me handy for the pletn of her latt book.

GAYATRI DEVI'S FAL JOURNEY

(This story was first published on 23 May 2018 and has been reposted om The Qut’s archiv to mark Gayatri Devi’s birth anniversary on 23 May 2022.

)The third Maharani of Jaipur, Gayatri Devi, was sent to Tihar Jail July 1975, where she spent nearly six months durg the Emergency imposed unr the directn of Prime Mister Indira Gandhi. On 23 May, Gayatri Devi’s birth anniversary, we take a look at her time prison, and her relatnship wh Indira Why?

Opposn lears, journalists and others she viewed as a threat were rcerated durg the Emergency, many for offenc unr the now ad Matenance of Internal Secury (MISA) those targeted by Gandhi was the then Prcs of Cooch Behar, third Maharani of Jaipur, Rajmata Gayatri Devi. Gayatri Devi was thrown Tihar Jail 1975, shortly after Indira Gandhi clared who was she and why did she earn a place on the list of many people nsired “enemi” by Indira Gandhi? The dghter of Maharaja Jendra Narayan and Indira Devi, the lers of the kgdom of Cooch Behar, Gayatri grew up the lap of a 6-year urtship wh Maharaja Sawai “Jai” Man Sgh II, the ler of Jaipur, which began when she was jt 12 years old, she married Man Sgh, to bee his third wife, and the Maharani of refed to abi by the purdah system which Man Sgh’s first two wiv agreed to.

A BATTLE OF WILLS: GAYATRI DEVI'S £250M LEGACY

Gayatri Devi, who was also featured on Vogue magaze’s list of 10 most betiful women the world, proved repeatedly through her life that she was more than jt “betiful” 1962, Gayatri Devi ntted the Lok Sabha electns om Jaipur, and won by a landsli majory, 192, 909 vot out of 246, 516 – 78% – a world rerd marg acrdg to multiple reports at the time.

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Gayatri Devi ntted on the Swatantra Party’s ticket, the party found by C Rajagopalachari, the party that was the primary challenger to the Congrs Government’s Sharda Drew Indira Gandhi’s Ire? ”A report om The Inpennt, while scribg Indira and Gayatri’s relatnship, stated that:“Her [Gayatri] prence Parliament was to the great irratn of Indira Gandhi.

”Further, when Indira Gandhi and Gayatri Devi were at Patha Bhavana together, Gandhi reportedly had major problems wh Gayatri Devi’s “bety and unabashed display of wealth”, addg to the risn she felt towards royalty.

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Addnally, after the landsli victory the 1962 Lok Sabha polls, was evint that Gayatri Devi was a polil juggernt, a force to be reckoned, 1965, Prime Mister Lal Bahadur Shastri offered Gayatri Devi a chance to jo the party. Gayatri Devi, who had ntted on the Anti-Congrs plank, refed, and the Swatantra Party would go on to ally wh the Jan Sangh, wng Lok Sabha electns 1967, but losg the assembly electns Malpura nstuency to Damodar Lal Vyas.

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Gayatri Devi, who was Mumbai at the time for medil treatment, was rmed that she uld be arrted after her treatment was plete.

Gayatri Devi’s home on Aurangzeb road was raid by e tax officials, who rmed her that she was facg arrt unr the COFEPOSA (Conservatn of Foreign Exchange and Preventn of Smugglg Act), for alleged unclared gold and wealth. Gayatri Devi’s Life PrisonGayatri Devi was thrown Tihar Jail July 1975, where she spent nearly six months durg the shared her cell wh Shrilatha Swamathan, an NGO worker who was imprisoned for anisg farmhoe workers who worked on the borr areas of Delhi, cludg those who worked on a farmhoe owned by Rajiv prison, the Rajmata gave lsons to the children Tihar Jail, arrangg for slat and textbooks. Gayatri Devi, an terview wh the Tim of IndiaAfter her release, she retired om polics and wrote A Prcs Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur, an tobgraphy that was released a rult of her clarg the Emergency, the thoands of arrts, and the forced sterilisatn programme that was rried out unr her ernment, Indira lost the 1977 electns to the Janata Party, a party bbled together wh multiple opposn parti, to oppose Gandhi and the State of Emergency the untry.

RAJMATA GAYATRI DEVI: LIFE PICTUR

Gayatri Devi died on 29 July 2009, surround by her close iends and fay, after a battle wh paralytic ils and a lung fectn.

From shunng unfair tradnal norms and livg an unrtraed life, to speakg up for the downtrodn and beg fondly loved by the mass, Maharani Gayatri Devi has always been ahead of her own time. On Sunday, May 26, a seven-day long photo exhibn lled ‘A Journey to the Hearts of People' will also be lnched at the Birla Audorium the cy to showse Rajmata Gayatri Devi's journey through her pictur.