{"id":738,"date":"2004-11-25T10:06:25","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T15:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=738"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:27","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:27","slug":"the_late_prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/25\/the_late_prince\/","title":{"rendered":"The late princess left peanuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The family of a late Himachal Pradeshi princess is&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4039765.stm\">not happy<\/A>&nbsp;with her beneficence to her domestic help:<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Raj Rajeshwari, 66, princess of Bilaspur in India&#8217;s Himachal Pradesh state, reportedly changed her will shortly before she died. She left about 25m rupees ($556,000) to a peanut-selling father and son who also worked as her domestic helpers. \n<P><\/P>\n<P>&#8220;&#8230;cash, gems and jewellery, a car, Persian carpets and rare artefacts have been left to Babloo Gupta and Ram Bilas. The remaining half of the property has been handed over to a trust of the Himachal Pradesh government to open an old people&#8217;s home.&#8221;&#8230; The princess&#8217; brother is furious, accusing the beneficiaries of drugging her to change the will&#8230;<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>The reclusive, unmarried princess changed her will the day before she died. Is there substance to her family&#8217;s claim? <A href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/936002.cms\">Her sister-in-law says<\/A>:<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>&#8220;They attempted to kill her by an overdose of alprex (sleeping pills) three years ago and have indulged in foul play again.&#8221;<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">CSI:HP&nbsp;is on the case. Results are due back Wednesday at&nbsp;8\/7 Central.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of a late Himachal Pradeshi princess is&nbsp;not happy&nbsp;with her beneficence to her domestic help: Raj Rajeshwari, 66, princess of Bilaspur in India&#8217;s Himachal Pradesh state, reportedly changed her will shortly before she died. She left about 25m rupees &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/25\/the_late_prince\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}