Queens of Nepal - Photo Profile

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Let me start with the last queen

Komal Rajya Laxmi Devi

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Aishwarya Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah (1949-2001)

With family

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Komal enjoying being a queen....

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1777-78 and 1779-85 Regent Dowager Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Maharani  Rajendra Rajya Lakshmi Devi of United Nepal

Rajendralaxmi's minor son Rana Bahadur Shah was placed on the throne after the death of her husband King Pratap Singh Shah. In the beginning she was co-ruler with Bahadur Shah, but he had her imprisoned. When she was released from her imprisonment, she exiled Bahadur Shah and began to rule as the sole regent. She and her military chiefs managed to defeat an uprising by local chiefs and kings in 1781, resulting in the annexation of both the Lamjung and Tanahun to the kingdom of Nepal in 1782. The king of Kaski, Siddhi Narayan Shah also surrendered before the Gorkha troops, and his widow also made an unsuccessful attempt to control over Kirat state in the east. Also known as Rajendra Laximi she (d. 1785).




1799-1800 and 1802-04 Regent Sri Sri Sri Maharani Raj Rajeshwari Devi

When her husband, Shamsher Jang Devanam Sada Samar Vijayinam, abdicated she took charge of the government in the name of her son, Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah Deva (1797-99-1816). When her husband returned from India, where he had been a mendicant under the name and title of Sri Parama Mahanirvana Ananda Swami in 1804, she was imprisoned at Helambu and killed by being forced to kommit sati. Originally named, Sri Vidya Lakshmi Devi, she was granddaughter of Sri Sri Sri Raja Shiva Shah, Raja of Gulmi and (d. 1806).

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1800-03 Regent Sri Sri Sri Maharani Subarna Prabha Devi of Nepal
Some time after the abdication of husband, Shamsher Jang Devanam Sada Samar Vijayinam in 1799, she took over the regency for stepson King Girunayuddha Birkrama Shah, who ruled (1799-1804 and 1805-16). Her husband became a mendicant under the name and title of Sri Parama Mahanirvana Ananda Swami. Returned to Nepal and seized the regency in 1804 and assumed the title of Mukhtiyar 1806. She was daughter of Subudhi Khadka Basniyat, of Gorakpur, and (b. 1779-1804).





1806-32 Regent Dowager Sri Sri Sri Maharani Lalit Tipura Sundari Devi of Nepal
Also known as Lalitatripurasundari, she was regent for King Girunayuddha Birkrama Shah (1799-1804 and 1805-16) and then for Rajendra Bikram Shah Deva (1813-16-81) until her own death. She was daughter of a Thapa, and lived (1794-1832).

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  1839-41 De facto Regent Senior Maharani Sam Rajya Lakshmi Devi of Nepal

The Senior Queen, Samrajyalaxmi Devi, has been working to bring to been about the downfall of General Bhimsen Thapa since 1837 as he was accused of having poisoned her infant son, Devendra Bikram Shah. He was therefore arrested and out on irons. Her husband, king Rajendra Birkrama Shah (1816-47), was unable to rule himself, and she took the reigns. She made several appointments of senior state managers and miltary commanders. When Pushkar Shah was dismissed from the office of Mukhtiyar she expressed her desire to pass the rest of her life in Banaras and left in the beginning of 1842. Her husband followed her in an attempt to persuade her to return. The East India Company Government did not permit her to enter India territory and she then came back to Kathmandu and suggested that her husband become should abdicate so that she carry on the administration as Regent with Prince Surendra Bikram Shah on the throne. But since he did not agree to this proposal she then again left fro the Tarai. This time King Rajendra did not follow her. Soon after she returned to Kathmandu because she was suffering from malaria. No physician was ready to treat her at risk of his life. The result was that she died in October 1842.

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  1841-43 De facto Regent Sri Sri Sri Kancha Maharani Rajya Lakshmi Devi of Nepal
1843-46 Official Regent of the Kingdom
Also known as  Queen Rajyalaxmi Devi, she took over the supreme power of the state as first de-facto in charge of the government, after the Senior Queen left the country. The British resident, Brian H. Hodgson, optained the permission of the Governor-General, Lord Lord Ellenblorong to have administration authority transferred to her, and her husband, King Rajendra Birkrama Shah (1813-16-47-81), surrendered his ruling powers to her in January 1843 and signed an instrument of abdication in favour of his son Surendra, in December 1844, which he annulled on a few weeks later after his return to Katmandu. After her favourite, Gagan Singh, who controlled seven regiments in the army, was murdered she assembled the entire military and administrative establishment of Kathmandu at the courtyard of the palace armoury (known as the Kot). She gave an emotional harangue, and demanding that the prime minister execute the Pande leader whom she suspected of the murder. Fighting broke out in the crowd, and many of the leading nobles were killed. The incident became known as "The Knot Massacre". Soon after she left Nepal together with husband and two sons and went in voluntary exile at Benare. The following year her husband was officially deposed in favour of his eldest son and imprisoned. She remained in Beares for the rest of her life. She was born in Gorakpur in India, and lived (Ca. 1814-before 1900).



1857-63 Regent Dowager Rani rGyal-mo bKra-shis bu-khrid of Mustang (Nepal)
After the death of her husband, A-ham Kun-dga'-nor-bu, Lo rGyal-po (or Sri Sri Sri Raja Kunga Norbu, Raja of Mustang) she was regent for their son, A-ham 'Jam-dbyangs dbang-dus (1857-63) who was never installed or crowned and thus addressed in some local chronicles as rGyal-sras (prince). Her title rGyal-mo means Consort of the Ruling Prince or Rani. She was born as member of a noble Tibetan family.


  1863-68 Regent Dowager Rain rGyal-mo Tshe-mchog sGrol-mad of Mustang (Nepal)
First married to A-ham 'Jam-dbyangs dbang-dus (1857-63) and then to her brother-in-law, the Lama of Tsarang, and acted as his regent after he resigned as Lama and took over as Raja of Mustaing under the name of A-ham dNgos-grub-dPal-'bar. The increasing centralisation under the Rana regime after 1846, together with mounting tensions between Nepal and Tibet, meant that the central government took increasing interest in exercising control. Nevertheless, Lo continued to manage its own affairs, retaining a large degree of local autonomy throughout the regime. She died suddenly. (d. 1871).