Rajkumari Kaul

Rajkumari Kaul, (née Haksar; 13 September 1925 – 3 May 2014, was an Indian personality.^[2]

Rajkumari Kaul, (née Haksar)
Born	Rajkumari Haksar (1925-09-13)13 September 1925 Gwalior, India
Died	May 3, 2014(2014-05-03) (aged 88) New Delhi, India
Spouse	Professor Brij Narain Kaul ​ ​ (date missing)​
Children	Nandita Nanda, Namita Bhattacharya (daughters)
Relatives	Indira Gandhi[1]
Family	Nehru–Gandhi family

About

Born Rajkumari Haksar, Mrs. Kaul was a blood relation of Indira Gandhi,^[3] and a 'household member' of Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's family,^[4] and the mother of Vajpayee's adopted daughter Namita.^[5][6] Political scientist Vinay Sitapati, in his book 'Jugalbandi: The BJP before Modi', writes "The heart of the relationship between Vajpayee and Rajkumari was intellectual. From a provincial north Indian milieu, Vajpayee was both perplexed by as well as attracted to an educated woman who could hold her own."^[7]

Death

When she died on 3 May 2014, Atal Bihari Vajpayee bedridden after his 2009 stroke,^[8] could not attend her last rites due to ill health but numerous political dignitaries viz. L K Advani, Sonia Gandhi, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Jyotiraditya Scindia attended her last rites. RSS pracharak Ramlal was also present.