{"id":77461,"date":"2025-10-25T10:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77461"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:32:56","slug":"former-thai-queen-sirikit-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/25\/former-thai-queen-sirikit-dies-at-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Thai Queen Sirikit Dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s former Queen Sirikit, mother of King Vajiralongkorn and wife of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, has died at 93, the royal palace announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul described her death as \u201ca great loss to the nation,\u201d and postponed his trip to a regional summit in her honour.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Sirikit, admired for her elegance and compassion, was often hailed as a global style icon and a symbol of national unity during her 66-year marriage to King Bhumibol, Thailand\u2019s longest-reigning monarch.<\/p>\n<p>The palace said King Vajiralongkorn has declared a one-year mourning period. By Saturday, television anchors appeared in black, and national flags were lowered to half-mast.<\/p>\n<p>Former diplomat Pavin Chachavalpongpun noted that her death marks the end of an era, closing a chapter of modern Thai history defined by grace, tradition, and enduring royal reverence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Thailand\u2019s former Queen Sirikit, mother of King Vajiralongkorn and wife of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, has died at 93, the royal palace announced on Friday. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul described her death as \u201ca great loss to the nation,\u201d and postponed his trip to a regional summit in her honour. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1754],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77463,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77461\/revisions\/77463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}