The Thai monarchy posted photographs of the king’s consort online and withing minutes the website crashed.
The rare images show 34-year-old Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi. She was declared the ‘royal noble consort’ (Chao Khun Phra Sineenatra Bilasakalayani) by the king last month, not long after the king named another woman queen.
A queen consort is the wife of a reigning king, or an empress consort in the case of an emperor. A queen consort usually shares her husband’s social rank and status. She holds the feminine equivalent of the king’s monarchical titles, but historically, she does not share the king’s political and military powers.
Wongvajirapakdi is the first woman to be a concubine of the king of Thailand in almost a century.
She completed primary education from Rajapiyorasa Yupparachanusorn School and secondary education from Thawangphapittayakhom School at Nan Province then she received a Bachelor of Nursing Education Program at the Royal Thai Army Nursing College, Class 41 and graduated in 2008. Upon graduation, she worked as a nurse at Ananda Mahidol Hospital.
