Thai king's estranged son urges open discussion of monarchy, in

thai royal family  The first Thai kings ruled over Sukhothai, the first integrated Thai kingdom founded almost 800 years ago It was during the reign of King Ramkhamhaeng the The monarchy is the apex of Thai society and projections of its power are unmissable in the kingdom, from towering portraits of the stern-faced

Ubolratana gave up her royal title and raised her family in the US She and Jensen divorced in 1998, and three years later she moved back to Photo courtesy of the Bureau of the Royal Household · Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Thailand in October 1996, celebrating the 50th

He is one of the wealthiest monarchs in the world with an estimated $43 billion in royal assets that had been entrusted to a Crown Property A recent example of this was provided by the banning of a new book, entitled Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn edited by