Photos: Mysuru Royal Family Blessed With a Baby Boy After 60 Years

Trishika Kumari Devi delivered a baby boy on Wedenesday night. The baby is the 28th descendant of the royal family.

Rishika delivered a baby boy on Wednesday night.

(Photo Courtesy: The News Minute)

It was all smiles for the Mysuru royal family members gathered at a private hospital in Bengaluru after Trishika Kumari Devi delivered a baby boy on Wednesday night.

Photographs showing a smiling Trishika, the wife of Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, the scion of the Mysuru royal family, have emerged as the couple celebrated the birth of the baby boy. The boy is the 28th descendant of the royal family.

The festive spirit of the family members was evident as this was the first time in over 60 years that the royal family is celebrating the birth of a child.

An overjoyed grandmother holding the baby

Doctor congratulates the family on the arrival of the baby

Rishika holding her baby.

Yaduveer succeeded the former scion of Mysuru, Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, who died in 2013, leaving behind no heir. After a long search, Wadiyar’s wife Pramoda Devi formally adopted Yaduveer in February 2015, and named him the late scion’s successor.

Trishika, who hails from the royal family of Dungarpur in Rajasthan, married Yaduveer in June 2016.

According to a report in The New Indian Express, the last time a baby was born to the royal family was in February 1953, with the birth of Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar.

Sources at the hospital revealed that both the baby and the mother were healthy and that Yaduveer along with grandmother Pramoda Devi and Yaduveer’s biological parents Swarup Anand Gopal Raj Urs and Tripura Sundari Devi were present at the hospital to mark the happy occasion.

The arrival of the royal baby was widely anticipated ever since a pregnant Trishika was spotted observing Dasara rituals in September.

I was the one who sat through the adoption process of Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar on 23 February 2015 and it is a great feeling that their heir is born.

R Rajachandra, Son-in-Law of Late Jaychamaraja Wadiyar

(This article has been published in an arrangement with The News Minute.)

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