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Radhika Raje Gaekwad [3] [4] (formerly known as the Queen of Baroda) [5] Raje married Maharaja Samarjitsinh Gaekwad. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] She has also been declared the most beautiful woman of the Indian Kingdom Dynasty by Forbes magazine besides being featured as the “Modern Maharani” [ 8 ] in the Millionaireasia magazine.
After the dissolution of her second marriage, she clung to her exalted title. Her Rolls-Royce still sported the armorial insignia of Baroda. She would reminisce about the days when she was a Queen and received 101-gun salutes. Prince Rainier awarded citizenship of Monaco to both Sita Devi and Princie. [10] She maintained a Paris apartment as well.
A print of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaikwad. The Gaekwad rule of Baroda began when the Maratha general Pilaji Rao Gaekwad conquered the city from the Mughal Empire in 1721. The Gaekwads were granted the city as a Jagir by Chhatrapati Shahu I, the Chhatrapati of the Maratha Confederacy.
Samarjitsinh played cricket for Baroda in the Ranji Trophy. He appeared in six first-class matches as a top-order batsman [5] between the 1987/88 and 1988/89 seasons. [12] He later became a cricket administrator and served as the president of the Baroda Cricket Association. [13] As of 2015, he runs a cricket academy at the Moti Bagh Stadium. [14]
Maharani Chimnabai II (1872 – 23 August 1958) was a queen and the second wife Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad of the princely state of Baroda, Gujarat, British India.She is the author of the treatise The position of Women in Indian Life (1911), and was the first president of the All India Women's Conference (AIWC) in 1927-1928, as well as the president of the National Council of Women in India in ...
Indira Devi (born as Indira Raje; 19 February 1892 – 6 September 1968) was the Maharani of the princely state of Cooch Behar, British India. [1] She was born a princess of Baroda as the daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, by his second wife Chimnabai II.
Maharani Chimnabai I (1864 – 7 May 1885) was a queen and the first wife of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of the princely state of Baroda (now in Gujarat), British India. Several memorials were built by Sayajirao following her early death.
The Lakshmi Vilas Palace (Gujarati: લક્ષ્મી વિલાસ મહેલ) in Vadodara, Gujarat, India, was constructed in 1890 by the Gaekwad family, a prominent Maratha family, who ruled the Baroda State. Major Charles Mant was credited to be the main architect of the palace. [1] [2]