Maharajkumari Rajyashree Kumari (born 1953) is a former shooter from India. She was conferred the Arjuna Award

Arjuna award

The Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961 by the government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports. The award carries a cash prize of 500,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll....

 in shooting in 1969 when she was only 16 years old, the youngest age ever.
Rajyashree was born in 1953 into the royal family of Bikaner in Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. She is the daughter of Maharaja Karni Singh

Maharaja Karni Singh

Maharaja Karni Singh , in full HH Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Narendra Shiromani Maharajah Sri Dr Karni Singh Bahadur, also known as Dr Karni Singh, was from 1950 the last ruler of the princely state of Bikaner, as part of India...

 a distinguished shooter who himself represented India in five Olympics Games and a five time Member of Parliament and Maharani Sushila Kanwar. She was married to Mayurdhwaj Singh Palitana and resided in London till her divorce and separation with the family.

She currently is the Chairperson of The Maharaja Ganga Singhji Trust and the owner of the Lallgarh Palace. Rajyashree runs many charitable trusts and resides in Bikaner.