From fashionista to caring mother, Thailand mourns Queen Sirikit

South China Morning PostCenterEN 1 min read 100% complete by Agence France-PresseOctober 26, 2025 at 04:29 AM

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Thousands of Thai royalists mourned former Queen Sirikit by lining the streets of Bangkok as her body was transported to the Grand Palace for a year-long funeral. The 93-year-old queen, wife of Thailand's longest-reigning monarch and mother of current King Vajiralongkorn, died on Friday. Her body was carried in an ambulance from Chulalongkorn Hospital to the palace, a procession that lasted over ten kilometers, with crowds including nurses and police officers showing their respects along the way. Queen Sirikit is deeply revered in Thailand, where royal family members are often treated as semidivine figures.

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