His trial heard how he bludgeoned Mrs Park to death with an ice axe in July 1976 and dumpedher in the lake near the family home in Leece, near Barrow-in-Furness.
Her husband, Prattapsingh Gaekwar, maharajah of Baroda, scandalized Indian society when hedumped his first wife in favor of the much younger Devi in 1943.