Tears and tributes as crowds gather to mourn death of Thailand’s Princess Bha

Beloved royal, said to have embodied ‘everything good in Thailand’, died in hospital after nearly four years in coma

At King Chulalongkorn Memorial hospital in Bangkok, mourners dressed in black sat side by side, their eyes pink from crying for the woman whose portraits they cradled in their laps.

Some images were framed in gold, others in plastic sleeves, charting the life of Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha from a rosy-cheeked baby to a young royal in red military dress replete with shining badges and ceremonial sword.

Later photos showed her posing with one of the dogs she was out training in 2022 when she https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/15/king-of-thailand-daughter-hospitalised-heart-problem">became gravely ill with heart problems.