Thailand’s royal household announces death of Princess Bajrakitiyabha

Thailand's Princess Bajrakitiyabha has died after more than three years in a coma, the royal household has announced.

She collapsed in December 2022 while exercising her dogs, which her doctors attributed to a severely irregular heartbeat, caused by a mycoplasma infection in her heart.

She was the eldest of King Vajiralongkorn's seven children, born on 7 December 1978 to his first wife and cousin, Princess Soamsawali.

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