Full confusion surrounding the Thai princess’s alleged death

Earlier this week the news came that Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha (44) had collapsed due to a heart defect. Since then, complete confusion has reigned over the princess’s state of health.

After the collapse, the BBC wrote that the royal family claimed she was stable, while other sources claimed her condition was more critical.

On Thursday, a journalist reported that an obituary was just around the corner.

“Sources say Bajrakitiyabha’s death may be officially announced within days. Dipangkorn (brother, ed. note) is being brought back from Germany and Chulabhorn (aunt, ed. note) is flying back from a trip to Japan, and then it will probably be announced,” journalist and former correspondent Andrew MacGregor Marshall wrote on Twitter.

On Friday, he will come with a new update.

“Royal sources say the official announcement of Bajrakitiyabha’s death may be delayed until after the New Year, but debate remains at the palace.”

A short time later it became known that the parents had gone to visit the princess in the hospital in Bangkok.

Have asked for monk help

Ever since the princess collapsed, Marshall has been giving his 300,000+ followers on Twitter frequent updates. However, he claims that the 44-year-old had died a long time ago.

“She was already dead on arrival at Pak Chong Nana Hospital, but medical staff took turns doing CPR to try to save her even though it was hopeless. This went on for hours,” he writes.

The journalist claims that her father, King Vajiralongkorn (70), rushed to the hospital in a military helicopter to Bangkok and Chulalongkor Hospital. There, she will reportedly be kept artificially alive with ECMO treatment, which is a way of keeping people alive when their heart and lungs are not working optimally.

But the doctors already concluded today that she is brain dead and will never recover, writes Marshall, adding that the royal house will not allow her to die with dignity.

“The Supreme Patriarch has asked monks to pray for her recovery twice a day. All this is just a lie and it shows the terrible dishonesty of the Thai regime. There are implications for the election to be held in March. She died yesterday. Let her go,” says the journalist.

Want control

Marte Nilsen is a senior researcher and Thailand expert, and she can tell you that the royal house in Thailand has a lot of power and a much greater position in society than the Norwegian royal house has.

Princess Bajrakitiyabha is also a very important person in the royal family. Without wanting to speculate, Nilsen says that if it is actually the case that the princess is dead and the royal family is withholding the death message – then it could be that they want to be in control.

– I think they want to have some control over the situation, both that they want to know what has happened and what will happen in the future.

– When such an important person in the royal family dies, it is an important event in society. Now it is not so long since the last time, when the king died, but it was an expected death. In that case, this comes like lightning from the blue.

The senior researcher explains that in the event of such deaths, there will be national mourning, many public ceremonies, and in general somewhat the same atmosphere as there was in Great Britain last autumn when Queen Elizabeth died.

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