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Queen Sirikit, the mother of Thailand’s King Vajiralongkorn, has died aged 93. <\/p>\n

She passed away “peacefully” in a Bangkok hospital at 21:21 local time (14:21 GMT) on Friday, according to the Thai Royal Household Bureau.<\/p>\n

Sirikit had “suffered several illnesses” while in hospital since 2019, including a blood infection this month, it added.<\/p>\n

For more than six decades, Queen Sirikit was married to Thailand’s longest-reigning monarch King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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King Vajiralongkorn has ordered the Thai Royal Household Bureau to organise a royal funeral, the statement added.<\/p>\n

Queen Sirikit’s body will lie in state at the Grand Palace’s Dusit Thorne Hall in Bangkok, according to the palace.<\/p>\n

Thai royal family members will also observe a year of mourning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Queen Sirikit married the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 1950<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Queen Sirikit met her future husband, King Bhumibol, while studying music in Paris, where her father was stationed as Thai ambassador to France.<\/p>\n

“It was hate at first sight,” she said in a 1980 BBC documentary about the Thai monarchy, Soul of a Nation, adding that he had arrived late to their first meeting. <\/p>\n

“Because he said he would arrive at four o’clock in the afternoon. He arrived at seven o’clock, kept me standing there, practising curtsy and curtsy,” she said.<\/p>\n

The couple married on 28 April 1950, just a week before King Bhumibol was crowned in Bangkok.<\/p>\n

As a young couple in the 1960s, Queen Sirikit and King Bhumibol travelled around the world, meeting US president Dwight Eisenhower, the late Queen Elizabeth II – as well as Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n

During that decade, she frequently made international best dressed lists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Queen Sirikit greeted the late Queen Elizabeth II during a 1996 state visit to Thailand<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In the rare 1980 interview with the BBC, she also described the relationship between the monarchy and people in Thailand, which continues to observe strict lese-majeste laws forbidding insult of the monarchy<\/a>. <\/p>\n

She said: “Kings and queens of Thailand have always been in close contact with the people and they usually regard the king as the father of the nation.<\/p>\n

“That is why we do not have much private life, because we are considered father and mother of the nation.”<\/p>\n

She was seen as a key maternal figure for the country, with her birthday, 12 August, marked as Mother’s Day since 1976.<\/p>\n

In 2008, she attended the funeral of an anti-government protester killed in violent clashes with police. <\/p>\n

Queen Sirikit suffered a stroke in 2012, after which she was rarely seen in public.<\/p>\n

She is survived by her son and three daughters. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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