Princess Shruti Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah of Nepal () (15 October 1976 – 1 June 2001) was the daughter of King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, and sister of King Dipendra and Prince Nirajan. Education Princess Shruti studied at Kanti Ishwari Sishu Vidhyalaya in Tripureswar, Nepal, St. Mary's School in Kathmandu, Nepal, and later at Mayo College Girls School in Ajmer, India. She completed her bachelor's degree at Padma Kanya Campus in Nepal. She was a meritorious painter. Marriage and family She was married to Kumar Gorakh Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, a member of an aristocratic Rana family of Nepal, descendants of Maharaja Chandra Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana. He is Head Global Banking and Commercial Banking for Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited. They married on 7 May 1997 in Kathmandu. They had two daughters: Girwani Rajya Lakshmi Devi Rana (born on 22 June 1998 in Kathmandu). Surangana Rajya Lakshmi Devi Rana (born on 21 October 2000 in Thapathali, Kathmandu). On 5 December 2008 in Kathmandu, Kumar Gorakh Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, married Deepti Chand, a humanities student at Kathmandu's Padma Kanya Multiple Campus, who is also the niece of a former royalist prime minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand. Name Shruti means "that which is heard". Death Princess Shruti, her mother, father, and brother Nirajan, and six other Royal relatives were killed in the Nepalese royal massacre on 1 June 2001. Honours National Honours Member First Class of the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu (29/12/1995). Commemorative Silver Jubilee Medal of King Birendra (31/01/1997). Bisista Sewa Padak [Special Service Medal] (1999). Foreign Honours : Grand Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honour (20/09/1994). : Dame Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (25/11/1996). Ancestry References 1976 births 2001 deaths 2001 murders in Asia 20th-century Nepalese people 21st-century Nepalese people 20th-century Nepalese women 21st-century Nepalese women Deaths by firearm in Nepal Female murder victims Nepalese murder victims Nepalese princesses People murdered in Nepal Murdered royalty Mayo College Girls School alumni Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Members of the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu, First Class Shah dynasty Padma Kanya Multiple Campus alumni