The 26-year-old is no less awe-inspiring in the way she switches from her regal bearing in flowing Sanganeri mul churidar kurtas in the first half of the day to a playful, sassy avatar in the second half, clad in short wrap dresses, patchwork pants and bucket hats, as she earnestly models the new product launches of PDKF, shoots a reel for the gram, or interacts with customers at the foundation’s retail store. Growing up in the City Palace in Jaipur, it was only natural for her to effortlessly claim the cusp that stands between tradition and worldliness. She is as much at ease draping the leheriya odhani over her head, dressed in a traditional ghagra choli, swaying to the beats of the dhol during the palace’s annual Teej ceremony, as she is steering conversations on arts and politics with dignitaries from around the world who are regularly hosted by her family—King Charles III and Queen Camilla, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, the Bachchans (close friends of her parents and grandparents), Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton, to name a few. “Our grandmother loves hosting; she says that the guests come at their time but leave at hers,” her brother, Padmanabh Singh, says in Vogue India’s July-August 2026 issue. “The good thing is that the house is big enough that you can actually step out when you need to. You could have 20 people staying there, and if you’re not feeling social, you could easily get by a whole week without seeing anybody.”
As kids, Gauravi would sleep with her mother, Diya Kumari, while Padmanabh would sleep by his grandmother, Padmini Devi’s, side. “When she was younger,” Padmanabh recalls, “she and a group of eight women would stay up every night to play rummy. I hated it when she would not put me to sleep, so I got her to promise me that she would stop playing cards. For almost a year, she put me to sleep and when I would wake up early in the morning to go to school, I’d see a game of rummy in progress. She’d convince me that they had just started playing.”
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