Bhumibol Adulyadej
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Bhumibol Adulyadej, titled Rama IX, was King of Thailand from 9 June 1946 until his death in 2016. His reign of 70 years and 126 days is the longest of any Thai monarch, the longest on record of any i
Bhumibol in 1960
Bhumibol (right) with his brother, King Ananda Mahidol in 1938
Bhumibol during his monkhood, visiting the Government House to ask for alms on 31 October 1956. Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram is on the right.
The procession of the coronation in 1950
Sirikit
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Sirikit was Queen of Thailand from 28 April 1950 to 13 October 2016 as the wife of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, her first cousin once removed.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
…the People Party seized. While doing his degree in Switzerland, Bhumibol visited Paris frequently. It was in Paris that he first met Mom Rajawongse Sirikit Kitiyakara, daughter of the Thai ambassador to France (Nakkhatra Mangala) and a great-granddaughter of King Chulalongkorn and thus a cousin of Bhumibol…
Sirikit in 1960
Marriage of Sirikit and Bhumibol on 28 April 1950
Queen Sirikit (Far left), Princess Galyani Vadhana (center), Princess Hemvadi, Princess Adisaya Suriyabha, Princess Adorn Dibyanibha and Queen Rambhai Barni (right) in 1950
Queen Sirikit taking an oath of office at the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall on 20 September 1956