Sita Devi was born on May 12, 1917, in Madras, to the Maharaja of Pithapuram, Sri Raja Rao Venkata Kumara Mahipati Surya Rau Bahadur Garu, and his wife Sri Rani Chinnamamba Devi of Mirzapuram. She first married M.R. Apparao Bahadur, the Zamindar of Vayyur, with whom she had a child, Rajah M. Viduth Kumar Apparao. Meeting with the Gaekwad and…