EXCLUSIVE: The last Lanna princess, who died last month, was only 10 when her kingdom was abolished. But what she did after that was nothing short of majestic.
on Jan. 2, at her home in Chiang Mai, the capital city of the lands of her forefathers. Established in 1292 AD, thekings ruled a wide, mountainous region of what is now Northern Thailand for 500 years—before being annexed by Siam, the expanding dominion to the south. Distinguished by their own language, arts, culture, animistic beliefs and, Lanna lands became tributary states, their kingdom split into smaller principalities.
The last time that grandma came to my concert that I played with a group of flautists including my girlfriend.Most of Chao Duang Duen’s descendants work in the arts. Yontaranak is a piano teacher and lecturer. His parents, including Duang Duen’s daughter Sugar and son-in-law Nat founded a much loved concert hall in Bangkok,
After establishing herself as a critical voice to be reckoned with in the local media, Chao Duang Duen studied to become the first female judge of the Juvenile Court in 1970, before she was voted into the House of Representatives, part of Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly, in 1973.“People ask me, how come your grandmother was so modernized?,” laughs Pana.
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