Saturday, June 13, 2026 - Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, known as Princess Pa, has died at 47 after spending nearly four years in a coma, the royal palace announced Friday.
The princess, the eldest child of King Maha Vajiralongkorn and a likely
heir to the throne, d!ed at a Bangkok hospital on Thursday, June 11,
after she fell ill from a heart condition and lost consciousness in
December 2022.
“This loss is not merely bad news announced to the people, but an
immeasurable grief in the hearts of the entire nation,” Prime Minister Anutin
Charnvirakul said in a televised speech.
Bajrakitiyabha collapsed while she was training dogs for a competition in
northeastern Thailand. She was airlifted to Bangkok for treatment and remained
hospitalized until her de@th.
The palace said that she had suffered a severe heart arrhythmia resulting
from inflammation following a mycoplasma infection.
Bajrakitiyabha’s condition worsened due to an intra-abdominal infection,
colitis, low blood pressure, arrhythmias, and blood-clotting disorders, the
palace statement said.
In April, doctors feared that Bajrakitiyabha’s condition was deteriorating due to the infection, according to Nation Thailand.
Mourners gathered Friday outside Bangkok’s Grand Palace and Chulalongkorn
Hospital, where the princess had been treated, to pay their respects, with many
holding framed photos and bowing in tribute as news of her death spread across
the country.
Born on Dec. 7, 1978, she was the daughter of then-Crown Prince
Vajiralongkorn and his first wife, Princess Soamsawali.
She studied law at Thailand’s Thammasat University before earning a
master’s and doctorate degrees in law at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY, from
2002 to 2005.
Bajrakitiyabha served at Thailand’s mission to the United Nations in New
York City from 2005 to 2006 before she returned home to work as a public
prosecutor.
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