Tribute To A Princess

All my life, I have been facinated with royalty, perhaps with good reason. Two of my favourite people in the world are women I look up to and almost worship. They are Princess Diana of Wales and HRH Gayatri Devi Sahiba, Rajmata of Jaipur. The latter is ..I don't know how to describe it but I'm almost in love with her. I never tire of reading her autobiography, never tire of turning over endless pages of her photographs. She has been described as an embodiment of beauty, grace and elegance. I try so hard to model myself on her and I would be insanely pleased If I succeeded even a little. What a fairy tale life she has led! The opulence and extavaganza of the Jaipur Royal Family is one that cannot be hoped to be matched by humbler royal families, like my own. The Rajmata has done so much, helped so many.
It's such a pity that time has to pass. At the height of her youth, She has been one of Vogue's most beautiful people in the world.To my prejudiced eyes, she is still so beautiful and so elegant.
It reinforces my theory that breeding tells. No matter what you do, if you are well born and well bred, it tells. Like my own grandmother. She, too, was one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen ,in her youth. I don't care how everybody thinks that being cool is so important, how it comprises wearing impossibly tight tops and pants that defy the law of gravity. All I want to do is live up to these women, become like them.
The Poonjar Royal Family ( my family) too has its share of heroes and heroines. Like Col. G.V. Raja. Sportsman par excellence, he was the brother-in-law of the Maharaja Of Travancore.
My grandmother tells me tales of this gentleman taking her to see golf courses and the like, when she was a child. He seemed, to me, to be a courtly and gallant gentleman. He never failed to come and visit my great grandmother.
I like to think of Gayatri Devi, not as she is now, but as she was then. A beautiful princess out of a fairytale. And thus forever will she remain to me. Her Highness, Gayatri Devi Of Jaipur.