![]() ![]() “We were very good friends, we got along very well, but there was no sexual attraction.” “Once we got married, it became clear to me that I wasn’t interested in women sexually,” he said. “I didn’t realize that the glamorous woman who appeared once in a while was actually my mother.” “Until I was 9 or 10, I thought my nanny was my mother,” he said. He barely saw his parents and was raised primarily by the same nanny who had raised his mother. He spent most of his childhood in his family’s seven-bedroom mansion in Mumbai, staffed by servants who had worked for the family for generations. His great-grandfather’s ostentatious display of wealth, with stables of racehorses and garages filled with Rolls-Royces (nearly a dozen), was no longer welcome in a newly independent India where socialism, austerity and self-sufficiency were the new mantras.Īlthough Prince Manvendra’s family no longer ruled a kingdom, the old ways still largely prevailed. Prince Manvendra was born in 1965 to Raghubir Singh Gohil, the current honorary maharajah of Rajpipla, and Rukmani Devi Gohil, the daughter of the former maharajah of Jaisalmer.īy that time, the era of fabulously rich Indian maharajahs had already waned.
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