Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs was formally adopted as the heir to the Mysuru royal family in Mysuru.
Yaduveer is the grandson of Princess Gayatri Devi, the eldest daughter of the last Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar. Yaduveer, who is doing his BA in Economics and English at BostonUniversity in America, has been renamed as Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodeyar.
The adoption ceremony of Yaduveer, who was attired in a resplendent golden-coloured sherwani, happened according to family traditions.
Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar, the last descendant of the Wodeyar dynasty, died of cardiac arrest at a private hospital in Bengaluru on December 10, 2013. Wodeyar, the only son of Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar, the last ruling Maharaja of Mysore, and his second wife, Maharani Tripura Sundari Ammani Avaru, succeeded his father as the head of his dynasty in September 1974.
He had remained the titular head of the erstwhile royalty during the famous Dasara festivities after succeeding as heir to his father in 1974. Interestingly the last rites of the late scion was performed by Chaduranga Kantaraj Urs, the other nephew of the late Wodeyar, fueling speculations that he may be named as the successor.
Recently Chaduranga Kantaraj Urs had gone to the media on succession issue.
The Wodeyar dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Mysore from 1399 to 1947, the last king being Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar, who ruled from 1940 until Indian independence in 1947 when he acceded his Kingdom to the dominion of India, but continued as the Maharaja until India became a Republic in 1950.