Another taboo broken

Nicholas Farrelly - 23 Sep, 2009

His son, the Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, has been married three times and in the past two years scandalous film footage has been distributed on the Internet and on clandestine CDs, featuring him and his current wife, Princess Srirasmi.

– Extracted from Richard Lloyd Parry, “King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand ill in hospital”, The Times, 22 September 2009.

Previous New Mandala coverage of the way that other taboos have been broken is available from 1 December 2008, 22 December 2008 and 29 December 2008.

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Nicholas Farrelly
Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the co-founder of New Mandala. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Oxford, over the past 20 years he has undertaken research in Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, China and India. Nicholas is Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania and formerly the Associate Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, where he also led the ANU Myanmar Research Centre from 2015 to 2017.
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