Nepal's King Gyanendra moves out of palace, home to royal family for 100 years
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Vowing to stay in his former realm, Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra moved out of the Narayanhiti Palace in Kathmandu this evening, two weeks after the country's Maoist-led assembly voted to abolish the world's last Hindu monarchy. (article 1)
Gyanendra Shah - as he is now officially known - handed the plumed crown and sceptre of the 239-year-old Shah dynasty to government officials along with the palace and other royal assets that have now all been nationalised. (article 1)
The man still revered by some as the incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu then swept out of the palace in a black limousine, driving behind an armed police pick-up, and past thousands of onlookers and hundreds of riot police. (article 1)
Gyanendra of Nepal assumed the throne in dramatic circumstances in 2001 after his brother, King Birendra, was killed in a palace massacre. (article 3)
After two years of living under virtual gagging orders, it was not surprising that Gyanendra Shah would attract considerable interest with his unprecedented statement to journalists. (article 4)
These men, in Nepali national dress, looked bemused as the minutes ticked by towards their farewell to the palace and their new careers as civil servants. (article 4)
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Source articles
- Nepal's King Gyanendra moves out of palace, home to royal family for 100 years (timesonline.co.uk, 06/11/2008, 692 words)
- Nepal's ousted king quits palace (BBC News, 06/11/2008, 655 words)
- Profile: Nepal's ex-king Gyanendra (BBC News, 06/11/2008, 815 words)
- Symbolic moment in Gyanendra's fall (BBC News, 06/11/2008, 893 words)
- Q&A: Nepal's future (BBC News, 06/11/2008, 1049 words)
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