Princess daughter of Thailand’s playboy king ‘is on life support after suffering a heart attack’

By William On Dec 15, 2022

The princess daughter of Thailand’s playboy king is on life support after suffering a heart attack while jogging with her dogs, it has been claimed.

Princess Bajrakitiyabha, 44, was reportedly running with her dogs when she collapsed in Khao Yai National Park in central Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima province last night.

The princess, who was being inducted as the successor to her father King Maha Vajiralongkorn, is said to have been airlifted from Pack Chong Nana Hospital to King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok in the early hours of this morning.

Princess Bajrakitiyabha, 44 (pictured in 2017), was reportedly jogging with her dogs when she collapsed in Khao Yai National Park in central Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima province last night.

Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun (center) is accompanied by Thai Queen Suthida (right) and their daughter Princess Bajrakitiyabha (left) in Bangkok in 2019

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Princess Bajrakitiyabha was born in December 1978 to the Crown Prince’s first wife, Princess Soamsawali.

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Vajiralongkorn had five children with his second wife, Sujarinee.

Children: Juthavachara Vivacharawongse, born August 1979; Vacharaesorn Mahidol, born in May 1981; Chakriwat Vivacharawongse, born in February 1983; and Vatcharawee Mahidol, born in June 1985.

And a daughter: Princess Sirivannavari born in January 1987.

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Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti was born in 2005 to Vajiralongkorn’s third wife, Srirasmi Suwadee.

He is the fifth son, the youngest son and the heir to the throne.

Doctors are reportedly keeping her alive with a life support machine and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has returned early from a trip abroad.

Thai royal expert Andrew MacGregor Marshall, an author and speaker, said the outlook was “very bleak” and that the monarchy, which punishes critics with jail terms, could descend into chaos.

MacGregor claimed the incident has “huge repercussions” for the Thai monarchy as Princess Bajrakitiyabha was being lined up as the successor to the controversial “crop top king” Vajiralongkorn.

The king has sparked controversy after it emerged that he spent much of the coronavirus pandemic in Germany with an entourage of “sex soldiers” assembled as a military unit in a four-star hotel.

The 70-year-old king has seven children from three previous marriages, all of which ended in divorce. Princess Bajrakitiyabha is the only one of King Vajiralongkorn who was born to his first wife, Princess Soamsawali.

King Vajiralongkorn has banished his first four male heirs from his homeland after accusing their mother, Sujarinee Vivacharawongse, of adultery in 1996.

MacGregor said: ‘Princess Bajrakitiyabha was initially taken to Pak Chong Nana Hospital where CPR was attempted for hours without success. King Vajiralongkorn rushed to the hospital in a military helicopter.

Royal sources say that the prognosis for the princess is very bleak and it is highly unlikely that she will ever recover. But she could potentially be kept alive artificially via ECMO for weeks or even months while the regimen decides what to do.

“These events have huge repercussions for the Thai monarchy because it was assumed that Bajrakitiyabha would be the next monarch or regent for her younger half-brother Dipangkorn who has autism and will not be able to rule alone.”

Residents living in the north of Bangkok reported hearing helicopters in the early hours of the morning. It is said that they were a helicopter carrying the wounded princess flanked by two military helicopters.

Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha (left) and Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana take part in a royal barge river procession in Bangkok, Thailand in 2019

The Thai palace has not commented on the alleged incident and docile local media outlets have censored reports about it.

Thailand’s monarchy is backed by the arch-royalist army, which has staged more than a dozen coups since the end of absolutism in 1932.

While the country has been rocked by decades of political turmoil, the constitution says the monarchy must be held “in a position of reverent worship.”

Vajiralongkorn acceded to the throne in 2016 after the death of his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who had reigned since 1946.

The new king was not formally crowned until May 2019 when he was carried on a golden platform in a six and a half hour procession through Bangkok.

During the ceremony, he was carried on a golden platform in a spectacular six and a half hour procession through Bangkok’s historic district.

Just days before the coronation, the King married his long-time consort and gave her the title Queen Suthida, in a surprise move.

Suthida Vajiralongkorn na Ayudhya, a former Thai Airways flight attendant, had to lie on the ground when the king gave her a gift during the marriage ceremony.

In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Vajiralongkorn is said to have spent much of his time with an entourage of “sex soldiers” at the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in the German resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Reports said the king had reserved the entire fourth floor, which includes a “pleasure room” and is decorated with “treasures and antiques” from Thailand.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand (right) and Queen Suthida during their wedding ceremony in Bangkok. According to tradition, the King has semi-divine status and must sit higher than those around him.

Its ‘sex soldiers’ are said to assemble as a military unit called the SAS like Britain’s special forces, with the same motto, ‘who dares wins’.

A hotel worker said staff are prohibited from going up to the fourth floor where the king and his entourage have camped.

However, the king’s diplomatic immunity means there is little the German authorities can do about it.

Queen Suthida reportedly spends most of her time at the Waldegg Hotel in Engelberg, Switzerland, without her husband.

The king is protected from criticism in Thailand by one of the world’s toughest defamation laws, with prison terms of up to 15 years.

Who is the playboy prince who became king? The Thai monarch has spent most of his life abroad and has been married three times before.

King Maha was born on July 24, 1952 at the Royal Dusit Palace in Bangkok, the 64-year-old is the only child and male heir to King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit.

As a teenager, he studied at two public schools in Britain, including King’s Mead School, Seaford, Sussex, and then Millfield School, Somerset. Later, he embarked on a military career, training in Australia.

In 1976, he graduated as a newly commissioned lieutenant with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from the University of New South Wales.

After graduation, he began a career in military training with the US, British and Australian armed forces. He too graduated as a fixed-wing helicopter pilot in the late 1970s in the Royal Thai Army.

His military career was interrupted in 1978 so that he could be ordained for a season as a Buddhist monk, as is customary for all Thai Buddhist men.

He married his first wife in 1977, a cousin, Princess Soamsavali Kitiyakara, with whom he has a daughter, Princess Bajrakitiyabha in 1978. They divorced in 1993.

Nine months after the birth of his daughter, the prince had a son with actress Yuvadhida Polpraserth, with whom he had a total of five children and a tumultuous relationship.

Three years later, his relationship with Ms Polpraserth broke down when she fled to the UK in 1996, after a spectacular raid.

In 2001, he married his third wife, Srirasmi Suwadee, describing her as a “modest and patient” woman who “never says bad things to anyone” and, as in his previous relationships, there were a number of controversies at the time. together.

In 2007, pictures posted online showed the couple hosting a party for their poodle, who held the rank of Air Chief Marshall, at the Royal Palace in Bangkok. Princess Srirasmi, a former waitress, who sang topless happy birthday to the dog, also got down on one knee and ate from a dog bowl in the same video.

In late 2014, Srirasmi suffered a very public fall from grace when several members of his family were arrested as part of a police corruption investigation and charged with lese majesty (treason).

Vajiralongkorn later divorced her and she lost her royal titles. The crown prince has spent much of his time out of the public eye, but in recent years he has intervened in some official ceremonies due to his father’s declining health.

Despite holding various military titles, including Knight of the Ancient and Auspicious Order of the Nine Gems, the prince admitted to an interviewer that he couldn’t tie his shoelaces at age 12 because courtiers had always done it for themselves. the.

The crown prince has spent much of his time away from the public eye, living abroad in Germany, but in recent years he has intervened in some official ceremonies when his father’s health worsened.

In August 2015, he led key figures from the current board and thousands of others on a mass bike ride through Bangkok, a rare high-profile appearance.

He was inducted as king in October 2016, 50 days after the death of his father, the revered Bhumibol Adulyadej. He had to fly back from Germany after learning of his father’s deteriorating health in the previous days.

Thai junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha announced that the Crown Prince would ascend the throne with the statement: “The government will inform the National Legislative Assembly that His Majesty the King appointed his heir on December 28, 1972.”

However, in a surprise move, he requested to delay his coronation and ascension to the throne for a year to mourn the death of his father.