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Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (Nepali: महेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव; 11 June 1920 – 31 January 1972) was King of Nepal from 13 March 1955 until his death in 1972, which was due to a heart attack, as told in an interview by his personal physician Dr. Mrigendra Raj Pandey.
Surendra's grandson Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah became the king, but like his grandfather, he did not have many powers. [22] Prithvi died prematurely at the age of 36 and his five-year-old son, Tribhuvan , succeeded him.
Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah (1911–1955) — Direct rule by King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah (1906–1955) 14 August 1952 15 June 1953 305 days — (18) Matrika Prasad Koirala (1912–1997) 2nd time: 15 June 1953 11 April 1955 1 year, 303 days — Rastriya Praja Party: M. P. Koirala II: Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah (1955–1972) — Surya Bahadur ...
Birendra was born at the Narayanhiti Royal Palace in Kathmandu as the eldest son of the then Crown Prince Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev and his first wife, Crown Princess Indra Rajya Lakshmi Devi. [1] [2] Birendra spent eight years studying at St Joseph's School, a Jesuit school in Darjeeling, with his brother Gyanendra.
Queen Kanti Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah (1906–1973), crowned senior queen consort on the same day as her marriage to the king, in 1919. They had four children: King Mahendra of Nepal (1920–1972), married firstly Lady Indra Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah and secondly Princess Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah. He had children by his first wife;
In 1886, Bir Shumsher ordered the old palace demolished, and a new one constructed by architect Jogbir Sthapit as a residence for King Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, his son-in-law. This moved the royal residence from Hanuman Dhoka Durbar to Narayanhiti.
King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev and Queen Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah in their coronation on 2 May 1956. Queen Ratna in the Netherlands on 25 April 1967 with Prince Bernhard. Ratna's older sister Crown Princess Indra had married Crown Prince Mahendra in 1940 but died in 1950. Two years later, Ratna married Mahendra.
As a child, he was briefly king from 1950 to 1951, when his grandfather, Tribhuvan, took political exile in India with the rest of his family. His second reign began after the 2001 Nepalese royal massacre. Gyanendra Shah is the first person in the history of Nepal to be king twice and the last king of the Shah dynasty of Nepal. [1]