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Eviction notice for Nepalese king | |
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Nepal's government has formally told the deposed monarch to vacate the royal palace within the next two weeks. | Nepal's government has formally told the deposed monarch to vacate the royal palace within the next two weeks. |
Correspondents say that the order was officially relayed to him on Friday - a national holiday. | |
Nepalese television stations have broadcast video of trucks being driven from the palace to Gyanendra's private home, filmed overnight. | |
Meanwhile, the government has denied rumours that the deposed king left the palace late on Thursday. | |
The government has set up a committee to audit palace property prior to nationalisation. | |
Ministers say that Gyanendra will move house in co-ordination with the authorities. He has been sent a copy of the assembly resolution which almost unanimously abolished the crown, and a letter asking that he move out. | |
Head to head: Nepal's monarchyIn pictures: End to royal ruleWhat next for Nepal? | Head to head: Nepal's monarchyIn pictures: End to royal ruleWhat next for Nepal? |
It is believed the former king and his wife will move to a private family residence in northern Kathmandu called Jeevan Kunj. | |
Next door is the house where he used to live, called Nirmal Niwas. | |
But his son, ex-prince Paras, now lives there with his family - contrary to the usual Nepalese practice of married sons staying with their parents. | |
The BBC's Charles Haviland, in Kathmandu, says that it is not known where Gyanendra's ageing stepmother, former queen mother Ratna, will stay. | |
She has lived in a lodge at the royal palace ever since marrying Gyanendra's father after his first wife, her own elder sister, died. | |
Last Sunday, administrators of a national archive warned the authorities that they must work to protect papers held at the royal palace, some of which date back as much as 2,000 years. | |
One, Kanak Dixit, told the BBC there was a lack of sober reflection on such matters during what he called the current "populist posturing". | |
The abolition of the monarchy was a key demand of the former rebels who emerged from April's elections to the assembly as the biggest party. | The abolition of the monarchy was a key demand of the former rebels who emerged from April's elections to the assembly as the biggest party. |
The former king has yet to make any comment on Wednesday's vote. | The former king has yet to make any comment on Wednesday's vote. |
Correspondents say the Maoists and other politicians are being conciliatory, saying the king should live on in Nepal as a private citizen. | Correspondents say the Maoists and other politicians are being conciliatory, saying the king should live on in Nepal as a private citizen. |
Some militant pro-Hindu and pro-royal factions are campaigning against Nepal's shedding of its royal - and its officially Hindu - status. | Some militant pro-Hindu and pro-royal factions are campaigning against Nepal's shedding of its royal - and its officially Hindu - status. |
The monarchy's fall from grace has come swiftly and was heralded by the 2001 massacre in which the then-crown prince Dipendra killed his family and several other royals. | The monarchy's fall from grace has come swiftly and was heralded by the 2001 massacre in which the then-crown prince Dipendra killed his family and several other royals. |