Hyderabad Nizam to pay ex-wife $1m in alimony

The court also asked the Nizam of Hyderabad, Mukarram Jah Bahadur, to pay 15,000 dollars a month for the maintenance of his ex-wife Manolya Onur and their 15-year-old daughter, the Indian media reported Tuesday.

The settlement, ordered by a court Monday in the southern city of Hyderabad, is one of the largest in Indian history, analysts said.

"I am very happy with (the) verdict," 52-year old Onur told the Times of India newspaper by telephone from Turkish city Istanbul, where she lives.

Onur filed for a settlement two years after she divorced the royal in 1994.

She told the newspaper that she would file a separate case demanding a palace worth millions of dollars in Hyderabad city's upscale area.

Onur and Bahadur, who is also based in Turkey, lived in Hyderabad for some time after their marriage in 1989.

Bahadur, who is in his seventies, is now married to a 22-year-old Moroccan.