After his father’s death in 2011, reports emerged that Saif had bought back the family’s Pataudi Palace from Neemrana Hotels. However, Saif denied this and asserted that he already owned the property, calling it “priceless”.

“I did not have to buy it back because I already owned it,” he told Mumbai Mirror. Today the palace serves as the family’s winter home and has undergone major refurbishments. Per Hindustan Times, Saif describes it as a “largish, colonial, Lutyens Delhi-style country home with seven bedrooms and beautiful gardens”.

Aditi Rao Hydari

Aditi Rao Hydari has carved a name for herself in Bollywood by starring in critically acclaimed films like Rockstar, Kaatru Veliyidai and Padmaavat. However, the 42-year-old star also belongs to not one, but two royal lineages. On her paternal side, she is the great-granddaughter of Sir Muhammad Akbar Nazar Ali Hydari, the former prime minister of Hyderabad state. On her maternal side, meanwhile, she is the granddaughter of Raja J. Rameshwar Rao of the Wanaparthy family.

Although her parents separated when she was two, the actress decided to keep both of their last names. “I wanted to keep both, as my mum has brought me up, but my father is also a part of me. Hydari is a rare name so I kept both Rao and Hydari,” she told Times of India.

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Riya Sen and Raima Sen

The Bengali sisters joined Bollywood in the early 1990s following their mother’s (Moon Moon Sen) and grandmother’s (Suchitra Sen) footsteps. While being the descendants of cinema royalty might already be enough to get noticed, the Sen sisters also come from actual royalty. Their paternal great-grandmother, Indira, was the only daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda. Meanwhile, their paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was a princess of Cooch Behar in West Bengal. That’s not all – her sister Gayatri Devi was the maharani of Jaipur, while their father Bharat Dev Sharma is also a member of the aristocratic family of Tripura.

Bhagyashree

Bhagyashree became an overnight sensation after starring alongside Salman Khan in Maine Pyar Kiya (1989), but she took less roles in the 1990s after getting married to actor Himalaya Dasani.

Born Bhagyashree Patwardhan, she is the eldest daughter of Raja Vijay Singhrao Madhavrao Patwardhan, the raja of Sangli in Maharashtra. “When I was younger, I would find it very odd and embarrassing when people much older [than] me would touch my feet because they had this reverence towards the royal family,” she told Rediff. On the upside, she said that she got to choose her own elephant as a pet as a child, and she would visit Sangli with her dad three times a year.

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Sagarika Ghatge

Model and actress Sagarika Ghatge is the daughter of Vijaysinh Ghatge, who belongs to the royal family of Kagal. She is a descendant of Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur. Her grandmother was also the daughter of the maharaja of Indore, Tukojirao Holkar III.

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