The unpredictable king of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, who is suffering mass protests in Bankok, has now been accused of breaking his sister’s ankles.
The shocking accusation was reported by Andrew MacGregor Marshall, the former head of the Reuters office in Bangkok, in his subscription-only newsletter, Secret Siam.
Marshall, who is free to cite Thai sources without fear of the country’s vicious censorship laws since leaving Asia, reports that the king allegedly attacked her after she was shot down by her dogs. Insiders claimed that he either jumped on her feet or beat her with a stick.
The assault was allegedly caused by her confrontation over his plans to make his second queen official consort, along with his current wife, Queen Suthida.
The Thai nobility recently lived with rumors that King Maha X should elevate his official consort, Sineenat “Koi” Wongvajirapakdi, to full queen status.
It seems that the proposed scheme has severely diminished with her sister, Princess Sirindhorn, who went to her brother to try to change her mind about two weeks ago.
This seems to have been a bad idea; the palace recently announced that Sirindhorn injured both ankles one fall and was taken to hospital, but, says MacGregor Marshall, citing “well-placed sources” from “informed palace networks” that it is less than half from the story.
In fact, he claims, “an angry line broke out” during the meeting and “was knocked down by one of Vajiralongkorn’s dogs and, while lying on the ground, either stamped her on the ankles or hit them. with a stick, smashing them 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 about Koi’s promotion to the second queen of Thailand was planned for Tuesday, her birthday. In what may have been a precursor to an official announcement later, the couple made a public appearance wearing appropriate blue clothes while releasing fish and birds in a Buddhist ceremony at Bangkok’s Wasukri Pier. Contrary to a report in the German newspaper image, no official announcement has yet been made about her rise.
If Koi is indeed promoted to the rank of queen, it would mark a remarkable comeback for the 35-year-old former nurse.
Koi was released from custody only in August last year after spending ten months in a correctional facility. She had been accused of fighting the queen, but was later declared “unpolluted” and returned to her role as the 68-year-old official consort of King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
As rumors circulated about her release, more than a thousand photos of her, including alleged nudes, were sent on SD cards to MacGregor Marshall and Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a Thai academician and open critic of the monarchy.
The king married his current and fourth wife, Suthida, in May 2019, just a few days before the coronation. He divorced his third wife in 2014. The relationship was made famous by a video that showed her feeding the birthday cake to his poodle, Fufu, while she was wearing only a string and the courtiers crawled on the floor in front of her and the king.
Fufu appeared in a previously embarrassing incident: The cables written by Eric John when he was US ambassador to Bangkok, which were published by Wikileaks, detail the king’s strange obsession with the dog. Diplomatic cables said he adored Fufu and gave him the title of Chief Air Marshal. He is said to have brought the dog to an official dinner “dressed in formal evening attire complete with paw gloves” where he drank from the guests’ glasses of water.
Thailand is struggling with a deep recession caused by COVID-19 and the collapse of essential tourism trade.
Opponents of the ultra-rich royal family have been encouraged in recent months as student protest rallies against the institution have seen their numbers rise.
Protesters recently went to protest wearing harvested blouses, exposing their pants to mock the king, who was photographed wearing similar clothes at German airports and malls.
The protests were inflamed by reports of the king’s vast wealth, estimated by that of London Financial times between $ 30 billion and $ 40 billion after sovereign funds were effectively brought under its direct control by the leaders of a successful 2014 coup.
He is believed to be the richest king in the world.
As recently reported by The Daily Beast, Vajiralongkorn is said to have built an extraordinary fleet of 38 planes and helicopters for the exclusive use of the Thai royal family.
He 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 were given the same honorary name also affected his internal reputation. International.
The e-mail addresses provided on the Thai government websites did not work, and the e-mails from The Daily Beast requesting comments were returned. However, Thai kings do not usually comment in response to media inquiries, in part because criticizing the royal family in the media is a crime under strict conditions. let majesty the provisions of Thai law.
At the latest, according to a report by the Prachatai news agency, at least 55 people are now facing let majesty taxes.