Gayatri Devi: India's Legendary Prcs Pass Away – The Morate Voice

Contents:

• STUNNG FACTS ABOUT GAYATRI DEVI, THE LOST MAHARANI
• GAYATRI DEVI’S GRANDKIDS LOSE LONG LEGAL BATTLE TO HER HER PROPERTI
• GAYATRI DEVI: INDIA’S LEGENDARY PRCS PASS AWAY
• WHEN GAYATRI DEVI’S MOTHER TURNED DOWN PRCE SAWAI MAN SGH II FOR WANTG TO MARRY THE 15-YEAR-OLD
• HOW A ROYAL LOVECHILD WON ACCEPTANCE GAYATRI DEVI’S FAYAN EXCERPT OM HOE OF JAIPUR - THE INSI STORY OF INDIA’S MOST GLAMORO ROYAL FAY, BY JOHN ZUBRZYCKIJOHN ZUBRZYCKIPUBLISHED: 21 AUG 2020, 5:59 PM ISTBOOKS5 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY
• REMEMBERG LATE H.H. RAJMATA SAHEB GAYATRI DEVI OF JAIPUR: INDIA’S INIC ROYAL LEGEND
• GAYATRI DEVI

STUNNG FACTS ABOUT GAYATRI DEVI, THE LOST MAHARANI

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.

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.

GAYATRI DEVI’S GRANDKIDS LOSE LONG LEGAL BATTLE TO HER HER PROPERTI

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.

WHEN GAYATRI DEVI’S MOTHER TURNED DOWN PRCE SAWAI MAN SGH II FOR WANTG TO MARRY THE 15-YEAR-OLD

Thkg she already knew, Jai broached the subject wh the dowager, who immediately grew nfed and sisted Gayatri had told her nothg. 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. 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.

HOW A ROYAL LOVECHILD WON ACCEPTANCE GAYATRI DEVI’S FAYAN EXCERPT OM HOE OF JAIPUR - THE INSI STORY OF INDIA’S MOST GLAMORO ROYAL FAY, BY JOHN ZUBRZYCKIJOHN ZUBRZYCKIPUBLISHED: 21 AUG 2020, 5:59 PM ISTBOOKS5 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY

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.

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.

REMEMBERG LATE H.H. RAJMATA SAHEB GAYATRI DEVI OF JAIPUR: INDIA’S INIC ROYAL LEGEND

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.

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.

GAYATRI DEVI

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. 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.