{"id":2115923,"date":"2025-10-26T03:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T03:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2115923"},"modified":"2025-10-26T03:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T03:46:16","slug":"thailand-mourns-queen-sirikit-as-year-long-royal-funeral-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/thailand-mourns-queen-sirikit-as-year-long-royal-funeral-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand mourns Queen Sirikit as year-long royal funeral begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The year-long funeral ceremony of Thailand<\/span><\/a>\u2019s former Queen Sirikit started on Sunday, with grieving royalists set to salute the procession bringing her remains to lie in state at Bangkok\u2019s Grand Palace.<\/div>\n

The royal family is venerated in Thailand, treated by many as semidivine figures and lavished with glowing media coverage and gold-adorned portraits hanging in public spaces and private homes nationwide.<\/p>\n

Former Queen Sirikit, the mother of the current King Vajiralongkorn<\/span><\/a> and wife of the nation\u2019s longest-reigning monarch, died late on Friday at the age of 93.<\/div>\n

Digital advertising billboards in the Thai capital are displaying towering black tributes to the royal matriarch, while citizens have been asked to wear dark tones and curtail celebratory public events.<\/p>\n

The former queen\u2019s body is due late on Sunday afternoon to make the short trip from Chulalongkorn Hospital to the seat of the Thai royalty, where she will lie in state for one year before cremation.<\/p>\n

Throughout her 66-year marriage to King Bhumibol Adulyadej<\/span><\/a>, Sirikit carved a dual reputation as a glittering fashionista and the nation\u2019s caring mother figure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The year-long funeral ceremony of Thailand\u2019s former Queen Sirikit started on Sunday, with grieving royalists set to salute the procession bringing her remains to lie in state at Bangkok\u2019s Grand Palace. The royal family is venerated in Thailand, treated by many as semidivine figures and lavished with glowing media coverage and gold-adorned portraits hanging in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2115924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[401134,400572,401132,401133,400680,25615,401128,401129,400655,401130,371295,400552,23875,401131,350685],"class_list":["post-2115923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-anutin-charnvirakul","tag-asean","tag-bangkoks-grand-palace","tag-cambodia","tag-chulalongkorn-hospital","tag-elvis-presley","tag-grand-palace","tag-jackie-kennedy","tag-king-bhumibol-adulyadej","tag-king-vajiralongkorn","tag-malaysia","tag-queen-sirikit","tag-thailand","tag-us-president-donald-trump","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Thailand-mourns-Queen-Sirikit-as-year-long-royal-funeral-begins.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115925,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115923\/revisions\/2115925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2115924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}