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Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (Nepali: श्री ५ महाराजाधिराज वीरेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव), (28 December 1945 – 1 June 2001) was the tenth King of Nepal from 1972 until his assassination in 2001. He was the eldest son of King Mahendra.
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The Nepalese royal massacre (also called “Durbar Hatyakanda”) occurred on 1 June 2001 at the Narayanhiti Palace, the then-residence of the Nepali monarchy. Nine members of the royal family, including King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, were killed in a mass shooting during a gathering of the royal family at the palace. [3]
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Crown Prince Dipendra, the eldest child of King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, was beloved by the people of Nepal, who fondly nicknamed him Dippy. But according to Lieutenant General Vivek Kumar Shah, an aide-de-camp at the royal palace for 26 years who knew the Crown Prince from when he was small,the Crown Prince had another side. "From the beginni...
According to a government report into the massacre,Prince Dipendra showed up to a dinner party at the palace drunk on whiskey and high after smoking ''a special kind of cigarette prepared with a mixture of hashish and another unnamed black substance". After picking a fight with another guest, Dipendra was escorted back to his chambers by his brothe...
The timing of the shootings and the immediate shut down of communications within the palace meant reporters were left scrambling for information in the hours afterwards. Official reports of what happened were scarce. And many were left wondering who was in charge. The event itself seemed almost impossible, like something that could have been lifted...
There is an old legend in Nepal dating back to 1769 when Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered the three kingdoms and declared himself monarch. The King was marching into the Kathmandu Valley when he came across a sage, or mystic, and offered him some yoghurt. The holy man tasted it, and returned the rest, declaring it blessed. Unwilling to eat the yoghur...
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (born December 28, 1945, Kathmandu, Nepal—died June 1, 2001, Kathmandu) was the king of Nepal from 1972 to 2001, 10th in the line of monarchs in the Shah Dev family.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 4, 2001 · June 4, 2001. King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, who was shot to death on Friday in a massacre of Nepal's royal family, was a proud but isolated monarch whose reign began in absolutism and...
Oct 22, 2023 · The Crown Prince shot and killed his parents, King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, along with his siblings, aunts and other family members.
King Birendra came to the throne on January 31, 1972, the tenth ruler in the Shah dynasty in Nepal. He quickly demonstrated a different approach to the processes of governance than those adopted by his predecessor, and important changes in both the style and substance of policies were introduced.
