All of these countries have retained what a Filipino journalist, Marites Vitug, called “the trappings of power” in a conversation I had with her in Manila. In Thai society, the king is a figure of inestimable importance, a Hindu-Buddhist paragon of presumed dignity, virtue, and morality — none of which Vajiralongkorn seemed to be exhibiting on his stroll through the mall. In what seemed to be a concession to modern sensibilities, Vajiralongkorn, according to newspaper reports, has ordered an end to prosecutions under the lèse-majesté laws. This is partly because of skillfully applied measures of repression by the military-led government, including the disappearances and apparent killings of at least eight leading opposition figures, and surveillance of others the police feel might cause trouble. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. In fact he is known more for his eclectic dress sense, scandal-plagued past and failed marriages than any regal qualities. Updated on May 16th, 2017. | Photo Credit: Reuters . It has frequently appeared at official functions; including accompanying the Crown Prince to a 2007 reception hosted in his honour by the US Ambassador Ralph Boyce. “It’s all a way of making his power formal, visible,” one person whispered to me. Fears of a potentially powerful partnership between Mr Shinawatra and the future king were reported to have been the motivation in part for military coups in 2006 and 2014. In one of them, for example, he eliminated a requirement that when the king is out of the country, which Vajiralongkorn is most of the time, his authority would revert to a regent. But in 2017, Thai authorities demanded that Facebook remove embarrassing footage of the king in a shopping centre, wearing a crop top and sporting fake tattoos. sions among the country’s elite as to who should succeed King Bhumibol. Thaksin put into place several programs, like low-cost universal health care, aimed at alleviating rural poverty and appealing to his base. All of this would be far more difficult, maybe even impossible, if there were widespread public opposition. He’s using fear to solidify his position and to take command.”. But he also gave rise to a kind of middle- and upper-class terror that he was dictatorial and corrupt, and that his populist appeal challenged the sustained privilege of wealthy Bangkok elites. THAILAND could lose all access to Facebook today after footage of its heavily-tattooed king strolling around in a crop top went viral. In perhaps his most remarkable display of unrestricted power, after a new constitution was adopted in a referendum, Vajiralongkorn simply rewrote the clauses having to do with the power of the king. “I thought that Thailand would end up having a weak king,” Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a scholar of Thai politics and a dissident exiled from the country when Vajiralongkorn’s father was still king, told me in a Skype interview from Japan, where he lives. Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. Thailand activists stage crop-top protest against lèse-majesté law. If there were people hoping somehow that, being a Western-educated, cosmopolitan person living mostly in the West, he would encourage a move back in the direction of liberal values and practices, they have by now been disappointed. Vajiralongkorn’s assertion of his power comes at a time when Thailand has been moving in an authoritarian direction, the government largely controlled by the military, which, after years of sometimes violent political turmoil, took power in a coup in 2014. Vajiralongkorn, in this sense, arrives at a time of disillusionment with the old politics. And so, following the election, the former army chief who led the 2014 coup, Prayuth Chan-ocha, became the country’s prime minister. Please consider making a contribution to Vox today, from as little as $3. The man once infamous for his mistresses, crop tops, and presumably fake tattoos now looks out sternly from portraits placed all over Thailand, dressed in kingly gold-brocaded robes or a trim white jacket with epaulets, a yellow sash, and a sword. Footage of the King of Thailand wandering around a shopping mall in Munich sporting a skimpy yellow crop top and tattoos went viral last month after being uploaded to Facebook, and Thai authorities have been fighting to get the footage taken down ever since. “Yes,” he replied. He has clearly taken charge, doing so in a way that implicitly affirms both obedience to authority and a kind of above-the-law monarchical privilege. To get a sense of that, I spent a day in November in an area of fish farms and rice paddies in Chachoengsao province southwest of Bangkok to talk to members of an environmental group opposed to a planned industrial zone called the Eastern Economic Corridor. The Thai royal family has some pretty draconian laws when it comes to … Thailand’s new king is a kooky crop top-wearing playboy By David K. Li. His son, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, ascended the throne in December. She was also pictured in the cockpit of a fighter jet and wearing a gray camouflage pattern crop-top at the controls of a light aircraft. He’s arranged for units of the army to report directly to him. Previously regarded as the playboy son of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Vajiralongkorn was once spotted roaming the streets of Munich, sporting a crop top and tattoos (believed to be fake). Since taking the throne in late 2016, Vajiralongkorn has rapidly amassed power. Your financial contribution will not constitute a donation, but it will enable our staff to continue to offer free articles, videos, and podcasts to all who need them. Jorge Silva/Reuters. In a country where polygamy has been banned for 100 years, the king seemed to be saying that a kind of polygamy would be a prerogative of the monarch (and nobody else). King of Thailand Wears Crop Top, Internet and Government Freak Out. After taking the throne, Vajiralongkorn had her recognized as noble royal consort, meaning that she would be a sort of official concubine — a second female companion to the king in addition to his actual wife (his fourth). Among at least 35 … Yingluck was accused of corruption and removed from office in 2014, and with new Red Shirt protests looming and the old, much-loved king, Bhumibol, on his deathbed, the military stepped in, seizing power in a coup and then assuring the royal succession when Bhumibol died two years later. But, as Rungsila and people like him acknowledge, Thailand’s turn to authoritarianism has also been welcomed and supported by many people who experienced the intermittent turbulence and violence of the years before the 2014 coup, and who give credit to the military and the monarchy for the return of domestic “peace and order,” as the propaganda put it at the time. In Thailand’s neighbor, Myanmar, the military has allowed elections but retains its hold on power, and even the country’s ostensible democratic champion, Aung San Suu Kyi, has supported her government’s genocidal attacks on its Rohingya minority. A diplomatic cable from 2010, released by Wikileaks, reported members of Thailand’s political elite expressing hopes that the King would override the laws in order to appoint the Princess as his heir. LONG LIVE THE KING! Installing his mistress as a royal consort was certainly scandalous, but some of the measures Vajiralongkorn has taken to assert his power go well beyond nasty palace intrigue and into unprecedented territory for Thailand. “Take the Belt and Road project,” he said, referring to Beijing’s plan for a network of ports, railroads, energy corridors, and shipping lanes aimed at making China the center of a vast Eurasian economic network. “Some people have gone to jail,” Sirapop Kornaroot, known as Rungsila, a dissident poet recently released after five years of detention, told me. An image taken from a video widely shared on Facebook in recent weeks appears to show King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand walking through a shopping mall in a yellow crop top. People of Thailand, meet your new king. STROLLING in a German shopping centre, covered in tattoos and wearing a preposterous yellow crop top, the scruffy guy looked about as far from … Some of Thailand’s highest profile protest leaders dressed in crop tops and paraded at a central Bangkok shopping centre on Sunday in a jibe against King Maha Vajiralongkorn to … While his day job required him to dress conservatively, King Vajiralongkorn … The theater closed to mourn the king. “For the Chinese, it’s easier to deal with strongmen than with democratic governments,” one Thai businessman told me in Bangkok. Naked pictures emerge of Thai king who was filmed in tiny yellow crop top. BANGKOK — The new king of Thailand is into his fashion, but unfortunately the Thai government doesn’t want its citizens to know that. It would be hard to overstate the extent of what seems to be an almost medieval reverence for the king in Thailand. That’s the way they make people give up.”. In Thailand King Vajiralongkorn is most often seen parading in his royal regalia, complete with a colourful array of medals. While the king is back in Thailand for now, he normally lives in Germany. Public criticism of the king or his family is illegal under Thailand's strict lese majeste laws, with insults to the monarchy punishable by up to 15 years in prison. But when the subject turns to the king, most people lapse into an awkward silence or, if they do say something, look cautiously around them to make sure no unknown person is listening. But in new elections in 2011, the pro-Thaksin party won again in a landslide, and Thaksin’s sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, became prime minister. A new constitution written by the coup leaders allowed an election to take place in March 2019, but the new law gives the military so many automatic seats in parliament that it would be almost impossible for an opposition party to take control. His body was even adorned in FAKE tattoos. “He is basically running the country now, though he’s not doing that like his father did through moral authority. BANGKOK — The new king of Thailand is into his fashion, but unfortunately the Thai government doesn’t want its citizens to know that. “There’s a mutual interdependence between the military and the monarchy. When Sineenat was installed for her brief reign as noble royal consort, official photographs of the ceremony showed her lying on the floor, making hand gestures of fealty, while Vajiralongkorn sat imperiously on a gilded throne above her. “Actually, the 2014 coup was a way for the military to assure Vajiralongkorn’s succession at a time when his father was sick and Thaksin was becoming more popular than the king,” Pavin said. Construction cranes loom over the ramparts. For more on him, see richardbernstein.net. Read our full mailing list consent terms here. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? From fake tattoos and crop tops to making a poodle Air Force chief – the King of Thailand’s maddest moments revealed . The incident that has attracted the most attention in the new king’s reign so far involved the woman walking next to Vajiralongkorn in that shopping mall video, a former nurse named Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi. Thailand is a place where journalists, civic activists, lawyers, and others are summoned to a military base for “attitude adjustment,” as the well-known euphemism would have it. All four countries have another thing in common, namely close and cordial relations with nearby authoritarian China, which has used its power and wealth to promote authoritarianism throughout its region. It’s clear that nobody wants to be heard saying anything negative or derogatory about Vajiralongkorn. Thailand is putting the squeeze on Facebook to remove dozens of pages that have video of King Maha Vajiralongkorn wearing a crop top. The film showed the then-64-year-old Vajiralongkorn roaming a shopping mall in Munich, Germany, where he lived most of the time, accompanied not by his wife but his mistress. X × Social media is one of the most important, strangest, and most unpredictable inventions of the 21st Century all at the same time. After the death of his father King Bhumibol in October 2016, Maha Vajiralongkorn ascended the throne as His Majesty King Rama X. Amid the turmoil, prominent members of Thailand’s ruling class have reportedly been killed in a sign of what could become a more widespread conflict. But human rights groups say that, instead, similar prosecutions are taking place under the country’s computer crime laws. The leaking of the tape marked the eruption of below-the-surface tensions among the country’s elite as to who should succeed King Bhumibol. In Thailand King Vajiralongkorn is most often seen parading in his royal regalia, complete with a colourful array of medals. Is Thailand threatening to sue Facebook? Yet none of them are functioning as democracies. A private army would be very useful if there were ever a coup attempt, including a move against him from some dissenting faction in the army. They wrote: “We were ordered by our father not to return home to Thailand ... We were afraid to risk even demonstrating the slightest inference of disrespect toward the Royal Family.”. Russian President Vladimir Putin appreciates spy agency after US hack controversy I hired a car to look at the royal compound, though it’s not easy to get glimpses inside. BANGKOK — A few years ago, a Facebook video went viral and revealed to the world why many people in Thailand were anxious over the prospect of Maha Vajiralongkorn, then the country’s crown prince, becoming king. Neither can be as strong as it is without the other.”, “He’s not the kind of person to voluntarily relinquish any of his power,” Pavin said. The man once infamous for his mistresses, crop tops, and presumably fake tattoos now looks out sternly from portraits placed all over Thailand, … But there seems to be very little of that in Thailand these days. But that doesn’t mean he’s detached from politics back home. Unusually for a Thai king, however, Vajiralongkorn spends most of his time in Bavaria, where he has been snapped wearing skimpy crop tops, sometimes with elaborate temporary tattoos splayed across his back and arms. There is no such regent anymore in Thailand. Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkor will take the throne following the death of his father – but who is he and why are some people so unhappy about it? Some would prefer the Crown Prince’s younger sister, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, to take the throne but Thai law forbids a female monarch. Mr Boyce allegedly recounted the event in a leaked cable, writing: “Foo Foo was present at the event, dressed in formal evening attire complete with paw mitts, and at one point during the band’s second number, he jumped up on to the head table and began lapping from the guests’ water glasses, including my own. Thailand’s king has terrible fashion sense and likes wearing fake tattoos. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Maha Vajiralongkorn (left) wears a white crop top at an airport earlier this year. Foo Foo and its owner hit the headlines in 2014 when opponents of the Crown Prince leaked a video showing his third wife, Princess Srirasm, lying on the floor feeding the dog cake while wearing nothing but a G-string. Where does Vajiralongkorn fit into this? Millions rely on Vox’s explainers to understand an increasingly chaotic world. Unusually for a Thai king, however, Vajiralongkorn spends most of his time in Bavaria, where he has been snapped wearing skimpy crop tops, sometimes with elaborate temporary tattoos splayed across his back and arms. He’s taken control of an estimated $43 billion in royal assets that have for decades been entrusted to a Crown Property Bureau that, at least theoretically, managed the money for the benefit of the Thai people. Crop tops, tattoos and marrying his bodyguard - new Thai king's coronation sets the seal on years of eccentricity Experts believe this could deepen a period of instability in Thailand that has included two coups, anti-government protests and a bloody fight for secession by Muslim separatists in the country’s southern provinces. He spent much of his working life training with armed forces in Britain and the US, winning an array of military titles and a pilot’s license after developing a love of aviation. But then things got even stranger. Family 10 Things To Know About Thailand’s Crop Top-Wearing Royal Consort. The unpredictable King of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, who is suffering mass protests in Bankok, has now been accused of breaking his sister’s ankles. A furious opposition emerged, known as the Yellow Shirts — yellow being the color of the monarchy — whose claim to legitimacy was that they, with support from the military, were the defenders of the monarchy. A glimpse into the old race track revealed a bunch of construction sheds. It wasn’t lost on many Thais that the king himself had five children with a now-dismissed mistress while he was still married to his second wife (that mistress and four of the five children have since been disowned and are now living in the United States; the youngest child and only daughter lives in Thailand as a royal). He’s also disturbingly authoritarian. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. Born in 1952 in Bangkok’s Royal Palace, Prince Maha was educated in the UK at King’s Mead School and Millfield School before attending Australia’s Royal Military College. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn Shows Off His Sick Ink | Tattoodo Cookies This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience. The crop top is a reference to pictures showing the king dressed in one which have appeared in European tabloids in recent years. When the dog died last year, it was given a four-day funeral complete with Buddhist rites before being cremated in an extravagant ceremony. Video of the king was reportedly shot at a mall in Munich last year in July, and has been widely shared on the social … He's fond of the crop top. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. Bangkok: Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, 64, who is set to be crowned King of Thailand after his father King Bhumibhol died on Thursday, is a womaniser, wears crop tops … LONG LIVE THE KING! His removal of two crack army regiments in the Bangkok area from the usual chain of command and putting them under his own authority is among them. Her parents were later thrown in prison for two-and-a-half years for “royal defamation”. Meanwhile, in Cambodia, the long-serving prime minister, Hun Sen, has jailed his main political opponents and banned the only political party that had a chance to defeat him in elections two years ago. The King of Thailand held an odd ceremony Sunday where he named one of his top generals and longtime girlfriend as his official mistress, a … Since the military coup of 2014, at least 68 people have been arrested or imprisoned under these laws, according to Human Rights Watch. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. But things have decidedly not worked out that way. By Matthew Atteberry, Rush Hour Daily. Among the photos of Major-General Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, the Thai King’s consort, are images of her wearing a camouflage-printed sports bra. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. “Any other reasons they support the government?” I asked. It does this by refusing to criticize these countries for human rights violations, by offering aid and military support when such support is withheld by the US and Europe, and, not least, by presenting a model that seems to be successful and that China itself proclaims as an alternative to Western ways of doing things. Two died while in custody while another reportedly fled to Myanmar. The 64-year-old Crown Prince was pictured at Munich airport earlier this year wearing a small white crop-top, faded slim-fit jeans and a fake tattoo sleeve. The man once infamous for his mistresses, crop tops, and presumably fake tattoos now looks out sternly from portraits placed all over Thailand, dressed in kingly gold-brocaded robes or a … How do people feel about him becoming king? Richard Hartley-Parkinson Tuesday 16 May 2017 6:12 am. Richard Bernstein is a former foreign correspondent at Time magazine and the New York Times. “They supported the Yellow Shirts,” he said, “because they were afraid of Thaksin coming back.” We were sitting in a covered yard alongside one of his ponds, where he grows plankton for sale to nearby fish and shrimp farmers. As different as day and night, New York Post has reported that the new King of Thailand was questioned for his strange behaviours and was pictured wearing a white crop top exposing his midriff and other parts of his upper body. In Thailand King Vajiralongkorn is most often seen parading in his royal regalia, complete with a colourful array of medals. Marriages and issue Vajiralongkorn is clearly a product of Thai culture, but his evident authoritarianism also seems to fit a larger regional and even global pattern, the disillusionment with traditional liberal elites and the turn to strongman rule. The crop top was worn with reference to King Maha Vajiralongkorn wearing the same in European tabloids a few years ago. King Maha was spotted with … On 16 May 2017, Thai officials warned Facebook after an online video was posted of the king wearing a crop top and with full view of his half sleeve tattoo. The footage prompted a national scandal in Thailand and attracted news coverage across the world. In 2014, a senior policeman accused of insulting the monarchy mysteriously fell from a hospital window. And nobody can or dares to stop him.”. The cable records officials saying the Crown Prince “could not stop either, nor would he be able, at age 57, to rectify his behaviour”. Scandal, sex and crop tops: The scandal-plagued life of Playboy Prince Vajiralongkorn. Maha Vajiralongkorn has also been photographed cycling in a crop top in Switzerland and Germany, has a reputation as a womanizer, and reportedly gave his dog a four-day funeral. Indeed, the old politics was breeding such extreme conflict that Thailand was in danger of civil war. Of course, not forgetting his white poodle in hand. The Thai military government has always used a mandatory reverence for the monarchy as a tool of political control, and has carefully cultivated a very monarchical image for the new king. Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Reddit 0. It started in 2001 when a rich, charismatic populist, Thaksin Shinawatra, was elected prime minister via overwhelming support from the rural poor in the north and northeast of the country. In effect, it gives him control of a personal private army. The second wife left the country when the relationship ended. He’s gotten changes in the constitution giving him emergency powers and allowing him to exercise his authority even when he is out of the country — which is most of the time. He’s also embarked on a massive building campaign in the central Dusit district of Bangkok, where the monarchy holds real estate of such dimensions as to make the British royal family’s compounds seem small. According to the report, the new King is domiciled in Bavaria where he owns two villas which makes him subject to local inheritance tax. The crop top is a reference to pictures showing the king dressed in one which have appeared in European tabloids in recent years. This has included closing areas that were once open to the public, including the Bangkok Zoo and one of Bangkok’s two horse-racing tracks. 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