Sirikit
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Most Influential Person Now
Thai queen
Why Is Sirikit Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sirikit is the Queen Mother of Thailand as the mother of King Vajiralongkorn . She was Queen of Thailand from 1950 to 2016 as the wife of King Bhumibol . She met Bhumibol in Paris, where her father was Thai ambassador. They married in 1950, shortly before Bhumibol's coronation. Sirikit was appointed queen regent in 1956, when the king entered the Buddhist monkhood for a period of time. Sirikit has one son and three daughters with the king. Consort of the monarch who was, at the time the world's longest-reigning head of state, she was also the world's longest-serving queen consort. Sirikit suffered a stroke in 2012 and has since refrained from public appearances.
