After special offerings and prayers at home and in India, King Gyanendra and Queen Komal are living in the main building of the Narayanhiti Royal Palace where they moved Wednesday to take up permanent residence 13 months after the June 1 unprecedented Palace shoot-out, a Palace
insider said.
They moved there from Nirmal Niwas, their personal home for nearly three decades. The royal couple moved to the official residence of the King and Queen with their daughter and two nieces.
King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, killed in the June 1 shoot-out, used the main building only for ceremonial functions. They lived in a bungalow east of the main building.
The carnage occurred at the Trivhuban Sadan at the northwest corner of the Palace; the home of late Crown Prince Dipendra is unoccupied.