Marilyn’s Reviews > A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur > Status Update

The book is full of the extravagant trappings of royalty, and the formality of the rankings of society. Yet the Majaraja Jai had a special relationship with his subjects, and would talk with any of them. “He embodied for them the special qualities of affection, protectiveness, and benevolent justice that they associated with the ideal father.”