Despite battling jet lag, having f lown in from India just the day prior, Princess Padmaja Kumari Parmar was not a minute late for her talk with SEEMA. This was just the first layer peeled off the multifaceted princess and set an informal tone in getting to know the royalty from the House of Mewar—the erstwhile kingdom of Udaipur. In the wide-ranging conversation from her home in Boston, where she now lives with her husband and two girls, the princess unhurriedly revealed her life story which began in Udaipur.