The unpredictable king of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, who is suffering massive protests in Bankok, has now been accused of breaking his sister’s ankles.
The shocking allegation was reported by Andrew MacGregor Marshall, former head of the Reuters office in Bangkok, in his Secret Siam newsletter.
Marshall, who is free to cite his Thai sources without fearing the country’s vicious censorship laws since he left Asia, reports that the king allegedly attacked after his dogs killed him. The inmates claimed he either jumped on her legs or hit her with a cane.
Allegedly, the aggression confronted her for her plans to turn her official consort into a second queen, alongside her current wife, Queen Suthida.
The Thai nobility has recently been alive with rumors that King Maha X should elevate his official consort, Sineenat “Koi” Wongvajirapakdi, to full queen status.
The proposed scheme seems to have gone wrong with his sister, Princess Sirindhorn, who went to see his brother to try to change his mind about two weeks ago.
It seems like it was a bad idea; the palace recently announced that Sirindhorn had injured both ankles in a fall and had been taken to hospital, but according to MacGregor Marshall, citing “well-located sources” in the “informed palace networks”, it is of less than half a story.
In fact, she alleges, “a furious line erupted” during the meeting and “she was knocked down by one of Vajiralongkorn’s dogs and, while lying on the ground, stamped her ankles or hit them with a cane, breaking it both. “
MacGregor Marshall says Sirindhorn underwent surgery on both ankles at Chulalongkorn Hospital and is unlikely to walk again for several months.
It is said that an announcement was planned about promoting Koi to the second queen of Thailand for Tuesday, her birthday. In what could be a precursor to an official announcement later, the couple made a public appearance with matching blue coats as they released fish and birds at a Buddhist ceremony at Wasukri Pier in Bangkok. Contrary to a report in the German newspaper image, an official announcement of its elevation has not yet been made.
If Koi is really promoted to the position of queen, this would mean a remarkable comeback for the 35-year-old former nurse.
Koi was only released from prison in August last year after spending ten months in a prison. She had been accused of arguing with the queen, but was then declared “uncontaminated” and regained her role as official consort of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, 68.
Just as rumors of his release circulated, more than a thousand photos of him, including alleged nudes, were sent on SD cards to MacGregor Marshall and Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a Thai scholar and critic of the monarchy.
The king only married his current and fourth wife, Suthida, in May 2019, a few days before his coronation. He divorced his third wife in 2014. The relationship became famous thanks to a leaked video showing how he fed the birthday cake with his poodle, Fufu, while she only wore a rope fence and the courtiers s they dragged him to the ground in front of her and the king.
Fufu appeared in a shameful previous incident: the cables written by Eric John when he was U.S. ambassador to Bangkok, published by Wikileaks, detailed the king’s strange obsession with the dog. Diplomatic cables said he adored Fufu and gave him the title of air chief marshal. He is said to have taken the dog to an official dinner “dressed in formal evening gowns with gauntlet gloves,” where he drank from guests ’water glasses.
Thailand is battling a deep recession caused by COVID-19 and the collapse of the core tourism trade.
Opponents of the ultra-rich royal family have been encouraged in recent months, as rallies by student protesters against the establishment have seen their numbers increase.
Recently, protesters have been protesting wearing crop tops and exposing their stockings to mock the king, who has been photographed in similar clothing at German airports and shopping malls.
The protests have been inflamed by reports of the king’s great wealth, cherished by that of London Financial Times between $ 30 billion and $ 40 billion, after the leaders of a successful 2014 coup effectively put sovereign wealth funds under their direct control.
He is believed to be the richest king in the world.
As The Daily Beast recently reported, Vajiralongkorn is also said to have built an extraordinary fleet of 38 aircraft and helicopters for the exclusive use of the Thai royal family.
He has spent much of his last years living in Germany, most recently at the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in Garmish-Partenkirchen, where his entourage of 20 concubines who have been given the same honorary surname have also damaged their national reputation. international.
The email addresses provided on Thai government websites did not work, and emails from The Daily Beast requested that a comment be bounced. However, Thai royal families do not usually comment in response to press inquiries, in part because criticizing the royal family in the media is a crime under rigor. let majesty provisions of Thai law.
According to a count by the Prachatai news agency, in the last count, at least 55 people now face off let majesty charges.