Nepal's Monarch Departs
Deposed King quits palace forever; but an elderly mistress stays
KATMANDU, NEPAL | Nepal's deposed king gave up his crown of peacock feathers, yak hair, and jewels Wednesday and left his palace forever [...] but a remnant stayed behind: the 94-year-old mistress of the deposed monarch's grandfather, who died more than a half-century ago.
Few Nepalis knew of the mysterious elderly woman's existence until authorities announced Wednesday that she would be allowed to continue living in the palace. The reason: the youngest mistress of King Tribhuwan, who ruled the Himilayan kingdom from 1911 until his death in 1955, has no house to move to or relatives to take her in.
BINAJ GURUBACHARYA (AP)
and this, this is that amazing crown:
i want whole books and paintings and murals made about this story!
2 comments:
i hear yak hair is softest most finest material in the entire world, ever.
really? bear grylls (man vs. wild) never mentioned that after he skinned that yak on that one episode :)
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