KATHMANDU, Jan. 22 Kyodo Nepalese...

KATHMANDU, Jan. 22 Kyodo

Nepalese princess Prearana Rajyalaxmi Devi Shah Wednesday married a one of the commons amid all the pomp and glamour of a Nepalese royal arranged wedding.

King Gyanendra, wearing the bejeweled Himalayan kingdom's bays gave away the hands of 24-year-old Prearana -- the king's solitary daughter -- to Raj Bahadur Singh, 29 at a formality held amid Nepalese religious rites at the Narayanhity Royal Palace in Kathmandu.

The king, Queen Komal and laurel Prince Paras looked on as Singh vowed by way of fire to provide a happy conjugal life to the princess.

Earlier in the day, Singh paid the customary visit to the bride's parents accompanied on a large number of kin and relatives

pensioners lined up the procession path leading to the palace to applaud the bridegroom riding in a horse-drawn chariot.

The bridegroom is scheduled to take the bride to one's home at local Chhauni in the western close of Kathmandu in a recur procession Thursday.

Invited for the celebration Wednesday evening were Nepalese royal relatives, high-ranking sway officials, diplomats and other dignitaries.

The wedding was the largest celebration at the palace, the official residence of the king, after the June 2001 massacre in which Gyanendra's predecessor and brother King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya were slain.

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