Princess Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah (15 October 1976 – 1 June 2001) was the daughter of King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, and sister of King Dipendra and Prince Nirajan. Princess Shruti studied at Kanti Ishwori Sishu Vidhyalaya in Nepal, St. Mary’s School in Nepal, and later at Mayo College Girls School in Ajmer, India. She completed her bachelors degree at Padma Kanya Campus in Nepal.She was married to Kumar Gorakh Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, a member of an aristocratic Rana family of Nepal, descendants of Maharaja Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana in 7th May 1997. Princess Shruti had two daughters: Girvani (born 22 January 1998) and Surangana (born 2 October 2000).She, her mother, father, and brother Nirajan, and other six Royal relatives were killed in the Nepalese royal massacre on 1 June 2001.