Padmanabh Singh
Padmanabh Singh is an Indian polo player and head of the Kachhwaha clan, the former royal family of the Jaipur State.
Personal life
Padmanabh Singh was born in New Delhi on 2 July 1998 to Diya Kumari, an Indian politician, and her husband, Narendra Singh. He was educated at Mayo College in Ajmer and at Millfield, a public school in Street, Somerset, England. Since 2018, he has been enrolled in Università e Nobil Collegio Sant'Eligio in Rome, studying cultural heritage management, art history and the Italian language. He is known as Pacho by his loved ones and friends, a nickname from his grandmother, Rajmata Padmini Devi.Singh is the great-grandson of Man Singh II, the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Jaipur in the British Raj, though the relationship is not patrilineal. Singh's mother is the only daughter of the late Bhawani Singh, an Indian soldier, hotelier, and the son of Man Singh II. His father is the son of a former member of staff of Bhawani Singh. Singh's parents divorced in 2018.
Upon Bhawani Singh's death in 2011, the 12-year-old Padmanabh Singh was unofficially installed as "Maharaja of Jaipur". Although princely pensions, titles, and privileges were officially abolished in India in 1971, families of some former princely rulers have continued to use the old titles unofficially for certain family members, or made new ones for themselves. In some instances, the titles are used in conducting family ceremonies and traditions, to promote the ideal of princely India for tourists, and to sustaining the wealth, stardom, and clout some families have retained.