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The Thai King’s eldest daughter collapsed from a heart condition on Wednesday evening, Thailand’s royal palace says.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the eldest daughter of King Vajiralongkorn, collapsed while training her dogs northeast of Bangkok, the palace said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 44-year-old was taken to a nearby hospital, then taken by helicopter to Bangkok, where she is being treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The palace described her condition last night as “stable to a certain extent”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some reports have suggested her condition is a lot more serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The princess is the daughter of the king’s first wife Princess Soamsawali, and his eldest child. She has been a part of her father’s innermost circle since he succeeded King Bhumibol in 2016, and has been made a senior officer in the king’s personal guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She is the most visibly accomplished of the inner royal circle, with post-graduate degrees in law from two US universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n King Vajiralongkorn has not yet named an heir to the throne, but Princess Bajrakitiyabha is widely viewed as the most suitable successor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Being one of the king’s three children who have formal titles, she is eligible for the throne under a 1924 Palace Law of Succession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She is a fitness enthusiast and also has a long record of advocating penal reform in Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She is especially vocal for female prisoners, of which Thailand has one of the world’s highest populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She was Thailand’s ambassador to Austria from 2012 to 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: The Thai King’s eldest daughter collapsed from a heart condition on Wednesday evening, Thailand’s royal palace says. Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the eldest daughter of King Vajiralongkorn, collapsed while training her dogs northeast of Bangkok, the palace said. The 44-year-old was taken to a nearby hospital, then taken by helicopter to Bangkok, where she is being treated. The palace described her condition last night as “stable to a certain extent”. Some reports have suggested her condition is a lot more serious. The princess is the daughter of the king’s first wife Princess Soamsawali, and his eldest child. She has been… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29125,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29123\/revisions\/29125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}