Queen Sirikit, mother of Thailand’s King Vajiralongkorn, has died at the age of 93.
She died “peacefully” in a Bangkok hospital at 21:21 local time (14:21 GMT) on Friday, according to the Thai Royal Household Bureau.
It said Sirikit had been “suffering from a number of ailments” while in hospital since 2019, including a blood infection this month.
For more than six decades, Queen Sirikit was married to Thailand’s longest-reigning King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in 2016.
Queen Sirikit suffered a stroke in 2012, after which she was rarely seen in public.
She met her future husband while studying music in Paris, where her father was stationed as the Thai ambassador to France.
On April 28, 1950, the couple married in Bangkok, a week before King Bhumibol’s coronation.
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