Earlier this week the message came Thai princess Bajrakitiyabha (44) fainted due to heart failure. Since then, complete confusion reigned in the state of the princess’s health.
After collapsing, the BBC wrote that the royal family claimed he was stable, while other sources claimed his condition was getting critical.
On Thursday, a journalist reported that an obituary was imminent.
“Sources say Bajrakitiyabha’s death may be officially announced in a few days. Dipangkorn (brother, ed. note) was brought back from Germany and Chulabhorn (aunt, ed. note) flew back from a trip to Japan, and may be announced,” journalist and former correspondent Andrew MacGregor Marshall wrote on Twitter.
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On Friday, he will come with a new update.
“Royal sources say the official announcement of Bajrakitiyabha’s death may be postponed until after the New Year, but debate remains in the palace.”
Some time later it emerged that the parents had gone to visit the princess at the hospital in Bangkok.
Has asked the monk for help
Since the princess passed out, Marshall has been providing frequent updates to his 300,000+ followers on Twitter. However, he claimed that the 44-year-old man had died a long time ago.
“He was already dead when he arrived at Pak Chong Nana Hospital but the medical staff took turns performing CPR to try to save him despite the hopelessness. This went on for hours,” he wrote.
The Queen did not visit her daughter
Journalists claim that his father, King Vajiralongkorn (70), was rushed to hospital by military helicopter to Bangkok and Chulalongkor Hospital. There, he was reportedly kept alive artificially with ECMO treatment, which is a way to keep people alive when their heart and lungs are not working optimally.
But doctors have concluded today that his brain is dead and will never recover, Marshall wrote, adding that the royal family would not allow him to die with dignity.
“The Great Patriarch has asked the monks to pray for his recovery twice a day. All of these are just lies and it shows the appalling dishonesty of the Thai regime. There are implications for elections to be held in March. He died yesterday. Let him go,” the journalist said.
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Want control
Marte Nilsen is a senior researcher and expert on Thailand, and she can tell you that the royal family in Thailand wields a lot more power and a much greater position in society than the royal family of Norway has.
Princess Bajrakitiyabha is also a very important person in the royal family. Without wanting to speculate, Nilsen said that if it’s true the princess died and the royal family withheld the death order – then they could be looking to take control.
– I think they want to have some control over the situation, both they want to know what has happened and what will happen in the future.
– When an important person in the royal family dies, it is an important event in society. It hasn’t been long since the last time, when the king died, but it was an expected death. Well then, this came like lightning out of the blue.
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The senior researcher explained that in the event of such a death there would be national mourning, a lot of public ceremonies, and generally a somewhat similar atmosphere as happened in England last fall when Queen Elizabeth died.
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