The bath used for silver coins
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Udaipur Palace
This palace has been occupied for 20 generations of the same family making it the oldest Royal family in the world.There is a large spa sized marble bath that used to be full of silver coins of which the Maharaja would distribute 25% to his people by throwing them out of the window.He has a solid silver coach and elephant howdah.The current Maharajas father once replied to an invitation of George V to meet him in Delhi,that the King could come to Udaipur but wear his sword and be prepared to die for the insult,or he the King could apologize .Apparently King George the fifth both apogized and visited
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