{"id":2456018,"date":"2026-06-12T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2456018"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:01:07","slug":"thailands-princess-bajrakitiyabha-dead-after-3-years-in-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/thailands-princess-bajrakitiyabha-dead-after-3-years-in-coma\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s Princess Bajrakitiyabha Dead After 3 Years in Coma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s <strong>Princess Bajrakitiyabha<\/strong> has died at age 47 after more than three years in a coma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bureau of the Royal Household announced on 12 June 2026 that Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendiradebyavati Kromluangrajasarinisiribajra Mahavajrarajadhita passed away peacefully at 19:48 hr on 11 June 2026 at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok,\u201d the Thai government said in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thailand.prd.go.th\/en\/content\/category\/detail\/id\/3672\/iid\/511650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> on Friday, June 12.<\/p>\n<p>Bajrakitiyabha had been in a coma since December 2022 when she fell unconscious during a public engagement.<\/p>\n<p>The Thai government said she lost \u201cconsciousness because of a heart condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn April 2026, doctors detected an infection in the abdomen caused by inflammation of the large intestine. This made Her Royal Highness\u2019s condition unstable, with low blood pressure, an irregular heartbeat, and abnormalities in blood clotting,\u201d Friday\u2019s statement said. \u201cAlthough the medical team provided treatment for Her Royal Highness to the best of its ability. Her Royal Highness\u2019s condition deteriorated and the Princess passed away peacefully on 11 June 2026 at the age of 47.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bajrakitiyabha was the eldest daughter of Thailand\u2019s <strong>King Maha Vajiralongkorn<\/strong>, whom he shared with his first wife, <strong>Princess Soamsawali<\/strong>. (They divorced in 1991.)<\/p>\n<p>The princess studied law at Thammasat University in Bangkok before receiving a master\u2019s degree in law at Cornell University in New York.<\/p>\n<p>She briefly worked at the Thai Mission to the U.N. in New York City and served as Thailand\u2019s ambassador to Austria from 2012 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Bajrakitiyabha was passionate about prison reform and the rehabilitation of female convicts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis loss is not merely bad news announced to the people but an immeasurable grief in the hearts of the entire nation,\u201d Thai Prime Minister<strong> Anutin Charnvirakul<\/strong> said, per the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/thailand-princess-bajrakitiyabha-obituary-3e1ca1ccca326008860e34bb9fa82686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Associated Press<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Charnvirakul said the princess was \u201ca pride of Thailand\u201d and that \u201cher commitment to building a society of kindness, justice, and equality will forever remain as a moral legacy for the nation, a guiding light for generations of Thais.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King Maha Vajiralongkorn has seven children in total. His four sons with his second wife, <strong>Sujarinee Vivacharawongse<\/strong>, were stripped of their royal titles in 1996 and live in the U.S. with their mother. Vajiralongkorn and Sujarinee\u2019s only daughter, <strong>Princess Sirivannavari<\/strong>, 39, remains in the royal line of succession. His youngest son,<strong> Prince Dipangkorn<\/strong>, 21, whom he shares with his third wife, <strong>Srirasmi Suwadee<\/strong>, is heir presumptive to the throne due to Thai custom that dictates a male heir.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand\u2019s Princess Bajrakitiyabha has died at age 47 after more than three years in a coma. \u201cThe Bureau of the Royal Household announced on 12 June 2026 that Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendiradebyavati Kromluangrajasarinisiribajra Mahavajrarajadhita passed away peacefully at 19:48 hr on 11 June 2026 at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok,\u201d the Thai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2354101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,25601,22091],"class_list":["post-2456018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-deaths","tag-the-royals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Valleys-Zack-Warns-Theres-More-Amanda-West-Drama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456018","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=2456018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456019,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456018\/revisions\/2456019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}