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...docile palace guards, trained more for fawning servitude than martial prowess, had no way of knowing that the Friday-night comings and goings of Nepal's huffy Crown Prince Dipendra, 29, would turn out to be the prelude to a dynastic catastrophe. When the Crown Prince and his cousin Prince Paras, 27, arrived at the palace for the royal family's regular Friday dinner, they were dressed casually in khaki slacks and polo shirts and had already had a few drinks. The two were notorious prowlers of the Kathmandu night-life circuit, regulars at the X-Zone nightclub...
...crime that now stands as the most heinous and shocking in Nepalese history was perpetrated in the innermost sanctum of that monarchy. At about 9 p.m. Friday, the mustachioed Crown Prince took his place at the teak dining table in a room that could accommodate 50 people, its pink walls hung with temple and landscape paintings. After pouring himself another drink, he began arguing with his parents, shouting at his mother, Queen Aiswarya, who didn't approve of the Crown Prince's romance with longtime paramour Devyani Rana, 23, the daughter of a former Foreign Minister of Nepal. The Crown...
Harvard contributed to the cosmopolitan education that the palace wanted for the crown prince, who became king in 1972, Pankauz Shrestha says...
...Friends' suspicions that Shrestha was the crown prince's protector may not have been entirely misplaced...
Being friends with the crown prince had its perks. Friends used to squeeze into his beloved black Jaguar XKE for rides...