Chitrangada Singh (née Raje Scindia; born 1967) is an Indian businesswoman and a descendant of the former ruling family of a major princely state during the British Raj in India.
Her wedding in 1987 to the grandson of Hari Singh, the last ruling Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir—an extravagant social event in a drought-ridden India—was covered widely in the Indian and international press.
[1][2][3][4][5] She is the co-manager of two heritage hotels: Karan Mahal in Srinagar and Taragarh Palace in the Kangra valley.
Her father was studying at the University of Oxford at the time; the family lived in a two-bedroom cottage that had no central heating—her parents doing the housework including chopping wood.
Considerations of community background were set aside because Maharaja Karan Singh was known for his progressive views, and because the Scindias had already received two generations of Rajput brides from Nepal anyway.