“Narayan was short in stature, and yet I remember one time we were in the cafeteria. He was in line in front of me carrying one of those thick plastic trays. He got three glasses of water. And then I noticed that he was holding all that weight just between his thumb and forefinger,” says Whitney Beales ’68, a fellow member of the Fox.

“It was then that I realized how highly trained Narayan was, and how important it was that the prince be protected.”

Besides the popular scholar-warrior at his side, Dev’s most recognizable trademark was his Jaguar, “a wonderful black XKE,” Kovago recalls.

The car seems to have been the only sign of Dev’s wealth and prestige. He was known for his modesty and studiousness, but never as a playboy.

Friends say the importance of his position weighed heavily upon him.

“Some of our conversations were very poignant,” Kavogo says. “About how different our lives were—he knew exactly what was going to happen to him, who he was going to marry, that he would be king. He was thankful for his long royal heritage, but I think he envied us Westerners our freedom.”

The Nepalese press gave a summary of every day the crown prince spent at Harvard, according to Nan Vogt, who served as co-master of Kirkland House, but spent 1967 in Nepal on sabbatical.