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The way they were...

Krishna Raja Wodeyar IV, the Maharaja of Mysore, had ordered a  customised  Rolls Royce to shield his servants from the sun Crafted in 1911, the car recently went under the hammer in August 2011 and fetched over ₤400,000. At the time of his death in 1940, the maharaja was one of the world's wealthiest men and was valued at nearly ₤35billion. Nawab of Junagarh was said to have owned 800 dogs, e ach with its individual human attendant. And that's not all! When two of his favourite dogs mated, he is said to have spent nearly Rs. 20-30 lakhs in “wedding” celebrations, and also went on to proclaim the day as a state holiday. The last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Usman Ali Khan used the "Jacob Diamond", the fifth largest diamond in the world as a humble paper weight! The diamond is of the size of an ostrich egg, weighs 184.97 carats, is valued at over ₤5million and is currently owned by the Government of India. King Jai ...