In his address to the Nepalese people on the eve of 66th National Democracy Day, the former king said: “I stepped aside for the sake of the nation, nationalism and movement forward, but I never separated myself from the supreme aspiration of the nation.”
Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev was the King of Nepal from 2001 to 2008. As a child, he was also briefly king from 1950 to 1951, when his grandfather, Tribhuvan, went into exile in India with the rest of his family.
