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Mahendra of Nepal in Coronation, 1955. Mahendra became the king of Nepal as the successor of King Tribhuvan. When King Tribhuvan left for Europe for treatment, Mahendra got the authority from the then King Tribhuvan. He inherited the throne aged 34 as a constitutional monarch. He became king on 13 March 1955 but his coronation took place on 2 ...
The monarchs of Nepal were members of the Shah dynasty who ruled over the Kingdom of Nepal from 1743 to its dissolution in 2008. However, from 1846 until the 1951 revolution, the country was de facto ruled by the hereditary prime ministers from the Rana dynasty, reducing the role of the Shah monarch to that of a figurehead. [1]
The royal couple of Nepal was greeted with the 'guard of honor'. [9] The king and the president discussed about the foreign affairs and agreed to support the efforts of the United Nations. [10] After the state visit, the king went to Williamsburg, Cape Kennedy, and New York City. He also went for a hunting trip in Alaska. [11]
1960 Nepal coup d'état was a coup d'état led by King Mahendra on 15 December 1960. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The same day, he dismissed the cabinet of B.P. Koirala and imprisoned Koirala. [ 3 ] On 13 April 1961, Mahendra made a televised appearance, in which he introduced Panchayat , a partyless political system.
Mahendra Bahadur Pandey is a Nepalese politician and diplomat. A politburo member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), on 25 February 2014 he assumed the post of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nepal under Sushil Koirala-led government. [1] [2] [3] Since April 2020, he is the Ambassador of Nepal to China.
The first general election was held in 1959 and Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala became the first elected prime minister of Nepal. However, he was deposed and imprisoned in the 1960 coup d'état by King Mahendra who went on to establish an oligarchic authoritative regime, the Panchayat system, and
Princess Bharati of Nepal (1927–2020), married Maharaja Sri Pradeep Chandra Bhanj Deo, the Maharaja of Mayurbhanj. She had children. She had children. Queen Ishwari Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah (1907–1983), crowned junior queen consort on the same day as her marriage to the king, in 1919.
Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev [a] (born 7 July 1947) is the former King of Nepal, reigning from 2001 to 2008, when the monarchy was ended. [1] 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.