{"id":495669,"date":"2026-06-12T07:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495669\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T07:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:43:11","slug":"thai-princess-dies-aged-47-after-three-years-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495669\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai princess dies aged 47 after three years in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol, the king’s eldest daughter, has died aged 47, the royal palace has announced, more than three years after she was hospitalised following a sudden illness.<\/p>\n

The princess was hospitalised in December 2022 after a sudden loss of consciousness caused by a heart condition while visiting the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima.<\/p>\n

Ms Bajrakitiyabha was flown by helicopter to the capital Bangkok for treatment.<\/p>\n

She died yesterday evening, after her condition worsened due to an intra-abdominal infection, colitis, low blood pressure, arrhythmias, and blood clotting disorders, the palace statement said.<\/p>\n

Ms Bajrakitiyabha, popularly \u200cknown as Princess Pa, was \u2060born on 7 December 1978, to the then Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn and his first wife, Princess Soamsawali.<\/p>\n

In Thailand, she will be remembered for her prominent role in public life, her efforts to improve the livelihoods of female prisoners, and her diplomatic career.<\/p>\n

She studied law at Cornell University, obtaining a Master’s degree \u200cand a Doctorate, and worked as an attorney in the Thai Office of the Attorney-General between 2006 and 2011.<\/p>\n

From 2012 to \u20602014, she was Thailand’s ambassador to Austria, Slovenia and Slovakia, before returning to the attorney-general’s \u200coffice in Bangkok.<\/p>\n

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\nOfficials pay their respects in front of a picture of Princess Bajrakitiyabha after she was hospitalised<\/p>\n

She also founded a charity promoting the rights of \u2060female inmates, particularly those \u200cwho were pregnant while in jail.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the princess was appointed as the goodwill ambassador for the rule of law in Southeast Asia by the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.<\/p>\n

She transferred \u2060to the army in 2021, where she was bestowed the rank of a general and served \u2060as a chief of staff in the Royal Security Command.<\/p>\n

The princess was one of King Vajiralongkorn’s three children who have formal titles and are eligible to take the throne under the constitution.<\/p>\n

In October last year, Thailand’s Queen Mother passed away at 93.<\/p>\n

The palace will hold royal funeral rites, while the government is expected to declare a period of \u200cnational mourning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol, the king’s eldest daughter, has died aged 47, the royal palace has announced, more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-495669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}