Maharani Gina Narayan Explained

Gina Narayan
Birth Name:Georgina May Egan
Birth Date:6 May 1930
Birth Place:London, England
Death Place:Spain
Succession:Maharani of Cooch Behar
Reign:1956 – 1970
Reign-Type:Tenure
Father:Arthur Egan
Mother:Evelyn Irons

Maharani Gina Narayan (born Georgina May Egan; 6 May 1930 – 14 January 2013), was a British-born Indian royal, the second wife of Jagaddipendra Narayan, the Maharaja of Cooch Behar.

Early life and background

Georgina May Egan was born on 6 May 1930, in London, the only child of police constable Arthur Egan and his wife, Evelyn (née Irons). Not much is known of her childhood and early life except that it was modest. She was educated at Purley County Grammar School for Girls.[1] Her father died when she was young and her mother remarried.

Marriages

Egan was married twice. Her first marriage was to businessman Douglas Fisher, to whom she was still married when she met her second husband, Jagaddipendra Narayan, the Maharaja of Cooch Behar, at a dinner party in 1956.[2] Egan and Fisher divorced shortly afterward, and after a three-month romance, Egan married Jagaddipendra Narayan later that same year.

Egan and Narayan married privately in London on 16 September 1956.[3] [4] Their marriage was made public in January 1960, from which time she was recognised as the Maharani, along with the style of Her Highness.

Later life

After 1980, Maharani Gina Narayan relocated to Spain, where she died on 14 January 2013, aged 82.

Notes and References

  1. Narayan . Gina . I Married An Eastern Prince . Woman's Own . 27 November 1965.
  2. News: Model became an Indian princess. Sydney Morning Herald. 30 July 2014. 12 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131212054019/http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/model-became-an-indian-princess-20130426-2ijx8.html. live.
  3. Narayan . Gina . The Child I Longed For . Woman's Own . 4 December 1965.
  4. News: Cooch Behar’s blonde queen – From the London swish set to the empty royal palace. https://archive.today/20130204033656/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070108/asp/calcutta/story_7217630.asp . dead . 4 February 2013 . . 2007-01-08 . Calcutta, India. 20 January 2013.