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{{Infobox royalty<br />
| name = Gina Narayan<br />
| title = <br />
| birth_name = Georgina May Egan<br />
| birth_date = 6 May 1930<br />
| birth_place = [[London]], England<br />
| death_date = {{dda|2013|1|14|1930|5|6|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = Spain<br />
| succession = [[Maharani]] of [[Cooch Behar]]<br />
| reign = 1956 – 1970<br />
| reign-type = Tenure<br />
| predecessor = <br />
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Jagaddipendra Narayan]]|1956|1970|end=d}}<br />
| father = Arthur Egan<br />
| mother = Evelyn Irons<br />
}}<br />
'''Maharani Gina Narayan''' (born Georgina May Egan; 6 May 1930 – 14 January 2013), was a British-born Indian royal, the second wife of [[Jagaddipendra Narayan]], the [[Maharaja of Cooch Behar]].<br />
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==Early life and background==<br />
Georgina May Egan was born on 6 May 1930, in [[London]], the only child of police constable Arthur Egan and his wife, Evelyn (née Irons). Not much is known of her childhood and early life except that it was modest. She was educated at Purley County School for Girls. Her father died when she was young and her mother remarried.<br />
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== Marriages ==<br />
Egan was married twice. Her first marriage was to businessman Douglas Fisher, to whom she was still married when she met her second husband, [[Jagaddipendra Narayan]], the [[Maharaja of Cooch Behar]], at a dinner party in 1956.<ref name="smh">{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/model-became-an-indian-princess-20130426-2ijx8.html|title=Model became an Indian princess|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=30 July 2014}}</ref> Egan and Fisher divorced shortly afterward, and after a three-month romance, Egan married Jagaddipendra Narayan later that same year.<ref name="smh" /><br />
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Egan and Narayan married privately in [[London]] in 1956.<ref name="smh" /><ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite news |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070108/asp/calcutta/story_7217630.asp |title=Cooch Behar’s blonde queen – From the London swish set to the empty royal palace|publisher=[[The Telegraph India]] |date=2007-01-08 | location=Calcutta, India|accessdate=20 January 2013}}</ref> Their marriage was made public in January 1960, from which time she was recognised as the [[Maharani]], along with the style of [[Her Highness]].<br />
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==Later life==<br />
After 1980, Maharani Gina Narayan relocated to [[Spain]], where she died on 14 January 2013, aged 82.<ref name="telegraphindia" /><ref name="smh" /><br />
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[[Category:People from Cooch Behar district]]<br />
[[Category:People from Purley, London]]<br />
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