Gayatri Devi was once named as one of the most beautiful women on Earth by fashion magazine Vogue.
The grandchildren of Gayatri Devi, one of the most iconic royals of India who personified a lost era of wealth and privilege before her death in 2009, have won a long legal battle to inherit her assets.
Gayatri Devi was one of the most celebrated beauties of the last century, mixing traditional palace life in the royal city of Jaipur with private airplanes, cocktail parties and shopping trips to London.
Her death triggered an acrimonious showdown over a fortune that was reportedly estimated at between $200 million (around 1,300 crore) and $400 million (around 2,600 crore), including two spectacular palaces in Jaipur that now operate as luxury hotels.
She was the third of the Maharajah of Jaipur's three wives and when he died on the polo field, the title passed to the son of his first wife.
Gayatri Devi was the third wife of Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II.
Gayatri Devi's only son, Jagat Singh, died in 1997 and her own death 12 years later, triggered a showdown between her grandchildren, Devraj Singh and Lalitya Kumari, and other members of the royal family.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld an earlier judgment by a lower court in favour of the duo, saying they had been deprived of their rightful share in the Jai Mahal and Rambagh palaces and other companies.
"All these years, my sister and I have only been asking for our father's shares in the family company and nothing beyond that," said Mr Singh in a statement after the ruling.
"Finally, I am one step further to be able to do my various duties towards my ancestral land."
Different branches of the family still exert control over the Jaipur estate, which remained partially intact long after the system of "princely states" was dismantled following independence in 1947.
Gayatri Devi, the matriarch of the clan, was a celebrated member of the international jet-set who was once named as one of the most beautiful women on Earth by fashion magazine Vogue.
She was accorded a royal funeral in Jaipur after her death at the age of 90.