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Jan 30, 2024 · Husband/Spouse: Narendra Singh Rajawat (chartered accountant, owner of a construction business) (1997-2018) Children: Son(s)- Padmanabh Singh (titular Maharajah of Jaipur), Lakshya Raj Prakash Singh (titular Maharajah of Sirmaur) Daughter- Gauravi Kumari (general secretary of the Princess Diya Kumari Foundation (PDKF)) (image in Husband/Spouse ...
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Diya Kumari was born on Saturday, 30 January 1971 (age 53 years; as of 2024) in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Her zodiac sign is Aquarius. Diya talked about her childhood in a column for a prominent Hindi daily of Jaipur in which she revealed how she was groomed as an ordinary child by her father. She wrote, She did her schooling at Modern School in Ne...
Diya Kumari first met Narendra Singh in 1989 when she was just 18. In 1989, Rajiv Gandhi asked Diya Kumari’s father, Bhawani Singh, to contest elections from Jaipur. Narendra Singh’s father, Thakur Budh Singh, who hails from Madhopur, assisted Bhawani Singh in his political campaign. At that time, Narendra Singh, who was pursuing his chartered acco...
Princess of Jaipur
As the Princess of Jaipur, Diya Kumari manages several properties, businesses, trusts, and schools of the royal family. She runs the City Palace, Jaipur, Jaigarh Fort, Amber, and two trusts, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Trust and the Jaigarh Public Charitable Trust. In addition to that, she manages two schools in Jaipur, The Palace School and Maharaja Sawai Bhawani Singh School, and three hotels, Rajmahal Palace (Jaipur), Hotel Lal Mahal Palace (Jaipur), and Hotel Jaipur House (Mount Ab...
Politics
Kumari ventured into politics on 10 September 2013 when she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She joined the party before a crowd of two-lakh people, in the presence of then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Rajnath Singh, and Vasundhara Raje, at a rally in Jaipur. She was elected as an MLA from the Madhopur constituency in Rajasthan in 2013. In 2019, she was elected as an MP from Rajsamand. Diya Kumari contested the 2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections from...
A dedicated philanthropist, she founded the Princess Diya Kumari Foundation (PDKF) to empower the underprivileged in 2013. She is actively associated with several NGOs and charity organizations, including the Eye Bank Society of Rajasthan. She is also the patron of Rays, an NGO that works for HIV+ children. She monitors the working of Sawai Man Sin...
Death Threats from Rajput Community Upon Marriage
Following her marriage in 1997, she received death threats from the Rajput community for marrying a man of same gotra. Ironically, they received threats from her husband’s namesake, Narendra Singh Rajwat, and his henchmen, who said that they will send suicide squads for the couple and blacken their faces. They barged into Diya’s father’s office to protest her marriage and told her mother to convert to Islam in order to conduct the wedding. One of Narendra Singh’s henchmen, Kamlendra Singh, th...
Claiming to be Lord Rama’s Descendant
In 2019, Diya Kumari claimed to be Lord Rama’s descendant, highlighting that Jaipur’s throne is the capital of the descendants of Kush, the elder son of Lord Rama. The claims were made amid the Ayodhya dispute when the Supreme Court asked Ram Lalla’s lawyer whether there were any alive descendants of Lord Rama in Ayodhya or in the world. Diya Kumari submitted a pamphlet in the court in which the names of all the ancestors of Lord Shri Ram’s clan were recorded in sequential order. The Royal fa...
Demanding the Ownership of the Taj Mahal
In 2022, she claimed that the plot on which the Taj Mahal stands used to have a “palace” belonging to her royal family, and that it was “grabbed by Shah Jahan”. She said that while compensation was given for the acquisition of the land, no law existed at that time to allow an appeal against the takeover. She asserted that she has documents that show Jaipur royal family’s claim on the land. She filed a petition before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court seeking the court’s directions...
Movable Assets
1. Cash: Rs 92,740 1. Deposits in Banks: Rs 2,36,11,943 1. Bonds, Debentures and Shares in companies: Rs 12,49,56,519.20 1. LIC or other insurance Policies: Rs 1,08,35,000 1. Jewellery: Rs 64,88,421 Note: The given estimates of movable assets are according to the year 2019. It excludes the assets owned by her spouse and dependents MyNeta
Her net worth was Rs. 16,59,84,623 in 2019. It excludes the net worth of her spouse and dependents. MyNeta
Food: Pasta, Chocolates, Laal maasMusic Genre: SufiSport: BadmintonTravel Destination(s): New York, London, CanadaActor: Irrfan KhanIn 2014, she was appointed as Rajasthan State Government’s Ambassador for the “Save the Girl Child” campaign.
Jan 16, 2019 · Former BJP MLA Diya, 47, had a love marriage with Narendra in August 1997 despite initial objections from her family and community. The duo decided to part ways after 21 years of married life. They have two sons and a daughter.
Personal life. Kumari has three children including Padmanabh Singh. These children are from her marriage to Narendra Singh. [20] [10] [21] The marriage ended in a divorce in December 2018.
Phoebe White married Divya Narendra on 17 June 2017 and the couple got married at Wainwright House, a celebration hall in Rye, New York city. She met Divya Narendra in 2013 in New York when she went out to attend a birthday party.
Divya Narendra ( / nəˈrɛndrə /; born March 18, 1982) is an American businessman. He is the CEO and co-founder of SumZero along with Harvard classmate Aalap Mahadevia. He also co-founded HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) with Harvard University classmates Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss .
Dec 12, 2023 · She married Narendra Singh and they have three children together, including Padmanabh Singh, the current Maharaja of Jaipur. Diya Kumari divorced her husband in 2018. DIYA KUMARI'S POLITICAL JOURNEY. Diya Kumari's political journey began in 2013 when she was elected as an MLA from the Sawai Madhopur constituency in Rajasthan.
