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Article: FIT FOR A RAJ; In the Princely Palaces of India's Rajasthan, The Stay's the Thing
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- The Washington Post
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- November 6, 1994
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"DON'T TOUCH MY BATHROOM!" SNAPPED THE FORMER princess of
Jaipur, India, when she led interior designers through her bridal
suite during the transformation of the Rambagh Palace into a luxury
hotel 22 years ago.
Today, Maharani Gayatri Devi lives in a modest private palace
next door while hotel guests at the Rambagh Palace wash in her
circular bathroom, soak in her marble tub surrounded by beveled
mirrors or shower in a stall with seven strategically positioned
shower-heads. A night of living like a princess in the Maharani
Suite - the same room where Devi spent the first years of her
marriage to the last prince of Jaipur - can be yours for the
princely sum of $625.
Fifty years ...