Hridayendra Shah

Prior to the abolition of the monarchy Hridayendra attended Rupy’s International School in Kathmandu with his sisters Princesses Purnika and Kritika. In July 2008 Prince Hridayendra left Nepal with his mother and sisters to move to Singapore to join his father who had been making arrangements for the family to live in the country.

In February 2007, there was speculation in Nepal that Hridayendra's father and grandfather would make way for him to take the throne. In July 2007, the Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala repeated calls for the King and Crown Prince to abdicate in favour of Hridayendra though this was rejected by the Maoists.

On 24 December 2007 it was announced that Nepal would abolish the monarchy in 2008 after the Constituent Assembly elections. On 28 May 2008 the monarchy was officially abolished, replaced by an interim secular federal republic.

Hridayendra was second in the line of succession to the Nepalese throne line of succession to the Nepali throne. In August 2006, before the monarchy was suspended, the Nepalese government adopted a bill to replace the Agnatic succession law with equal primogeniture. The House of Representatives subsequently approved the bill. Had the bill become law, Prince Hridayendra wouldn't have been relegated to third in the line of succession, his older sister Princess Purnika being elevated to second, because a clause of the law stipulated that living dynasts would not be deprived of their position or titles, the new provisions going into effect for those born subsequent to the change in succession order.

Hridayendra Shah (Nepali: हृदयेन्द्र शाह ) (born 30 July 2002) is a member of the Nepalese Royal Family (now deposed) and was the second in line to Nepal's royal throne. The monarchy was officially abolished on 28 May 2008. Until the abolition of the monarchy he was known in Nepal by the title Nava Yuvaraj.