Singh listed a private suite in his family's palace on Airbnb this November, making him the platform’s first royal host. While parts of the palace area are already open to the public, the one-bedroom, one-bathroom suite was previously used by the royal family to host high-profile guests like Oprah Winfrey and Princess Diana. It will be rented out for US$8,000 a night from January 2020.

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Padmanabh Singh is the 21-year-old king of Jaipur, India. His full title is Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur.

Singh, whose family and friends call him “Pacho”, is the 303rd descendant of the royal family of Jaipur.

He became king in 2011 after the death of his grandfather, Sawai Man Singhji Bahadur, who was called “the last Maharaja of Jaipur” when he died because he ascended to the throne soon before royal privileges stopped being recognised in India.

Singh’s title is not officially recognised by law, as India is a federal parliamentary democratic republic with a president and a prime minister. But according to The Guardian, the title “still inspires respect in this deeply hierarchical country where the aristocracy is venerated despite rapid social change”.

Jaipur is the capital of the Rajasthan state in northwestern India, known for its pink architecture and royal palaces.

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The royal family lives in the City Palace, which was founded in 1727 and spans a series of courtyards.

Portions of the palace are open to the public.

At the age of four, Singh left Jaipur to go to boarding school at Mayo College in Ajmer.

The school is nicknamed “India’s Eton” after the prestigious English school. “My boarding school shaped me the way I am,” Singh told The Week magazine. “It was a tough life with strict discipline and no luxuries.”

Singh celebrated his 18th birthday on July 12, 2016 at the City Palace in Jaipur.

The young royal spent the day visiting several temples and carrying out traditional rituals and ceremonies.

A pink and gold silk umbrella was carried over his head as he walked into a court of former nobles.

The former nobles were there to offer him Nazar, a traditional form of respect.

Singh’s mother is Princess Diya Kumari, a politician and member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly …

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… and his father is Narendra Singh. Singh became king after his grandfather because his mother was his grandfather's only child and his father, Narendra, was a “commoner”.

The couple announced their separation in December 2018 after 21 years of marriage.

Singh spends his time studying, playing polo, travelling, and attending charity and fashion events.

He has called polo his “biggest passion”.

The young monarch made Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Asia list for 2018 for his “prowess on the polo field”, as he served as captain of the first Indian polo team in England in 20 years.

Forbes noted that Singh was the youngest winner of the Indian Open Polo Cup and the youngest member ever of a World Cup polo team.

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Fashion seems to be another of Singh’s passions. In June 2018, he walked the runway at a Dolce & Gabbana show in Milan, Italy.

According to GQ India, Singh “always been an icon to fans and followers, with his understated yet classic style”.

Photos posted to his Instagram account often showcase his sartorial selections.

“I don’t like to fiddle around too much with my style, and try to be as elegant as possible,” Singh once told The Week magazine.

In 2017, Singh escorted Ava Phillippe, the daughter of actors Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe, to the charitable Bal des Débutantes in Paris.

They danced to a song from the movie La La Land.

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Singh is an avid traveller and often documents his voyages on Instagram. His trips have included South Africa …

… Italy …

… Spain …

… Thailand …

… the Rosario Islands in Colombia …

… Machu Picchu in Peru …

… and Portugal, to name a few.

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Singh spent a stint studying liberal arts at New York University (NYU).

He said living in New York made him discover Netflix and sushi. “Cooped up in my apartment with a bunch of friends, I watched Game of Thrones all winter,” he told The Week. “I realised sushi was so cool”.

Singh does not appear to have graduated from NYU, but he moved to Rome, Italy, in September 2018 to study art at a private university. “I lost my heart to Italy; it is the most beautiful country in the world,” he told The Week magazine. “With its old buildings and grand architecture, it always feels like home.”

While in Jaipur, Singh splits his time between living with his family at the City Palace and staying at Suján Rajmahal Palace, a former royal guest house that was recently renovated.

Singh has his own lavish private apartments in the palace called Ram Niwas, where his grandfather used to stay.

The apartment includes a bedroom with en suite bathroom, a dressing room, a private dining room and kitchen, a private veranda and a heated pool.

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The palace also serves as a luxury hotel.

Singh celebrated the Holi festival at the City Palace in Jaipur on March 1, 2018.

Holi is a Hindu festival that celebrates the triumph of good over evil. Today, people often celebrate by lighting bonfires the night before and then throwing coloured powder on each other throughout the next day. Singh lit a bonfire at the City Palace in Jaipur for Holi this year.

While the origin of the royal family’s wealth is unclear, Singh is likely to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Jaipur royal family is known to control “immense wealth”, but estimates of their actual fortune vary, from US$621.8 million in 2011 – which would be worth about US$696.7 million today – all the way up to 20,000 rupees crores. One crore is equal to 10 million rupees, or about US$142,531. So if Singh is worth 20,000 rupees crores, as one Indian newspaper estimates, that would equal about US$2.8 billion.

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In addition to their City Palace residence, the royal family of Jaipur also owns the Jaigarh fort, part of the Amber Palace, and Jaipur House, a luxurious summer retreat in Mount Abu, more than 300 miles from Jaipur, that’s now run as a hotel.

Singh has big plans as the Maharaja of Jaipur. “We are in a democracy now, and I cannot let my background go to my head,” he told The Week magazine. He added that he could never be content “to just live in this bubble and not travel the world”.

He said he considers it his duty to act as an ambassador throughout India and the world. “At the moment, I am focusing on my life, but I want to create Jaipur as a destination, host a lot of people and popularise Rajasthan’s art and culture,” Singh said.

Singh began that process this November. He listed a private suite in his family’s palace on Airbnb, making him the platform’s first royal host.

The suite will come equipped with a butler and will be rented out for US$8,000 per night starting in 2020. In the past, the accommodation was used by the royal family to host guests like Princess Diana and Oprah Winfrey.

The proceeds from each booking will benefit the Princess Diya Kumari Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to supporting rural women and artisans.

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