Rani Lakshmibai was just 18 at that time. Soon after they adopted Anand, Maharaja died due to an illness in 1853.
Few years after marriage, in 1851, Manikarnika gave birth to a boy but he couldn't survive and died after four months A handsome miniature of Rani of Jhansi found during the capture of the Nawab of Farrukhabad's palace in 1857.
