Thailand King crowns his consort his second queen as her ‘birthday gift’

The Thailand king has reportedly made history by making his mistress the country’s second queen, despite previously jailing her for ‘disrespecting’ the current queen.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn, 68, crowned Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi on Tuesday, her 36th birthday, Bild reported.

The pair wore matching blue coats as they released fish and birds in a Buddhist ceremony to mark her birthday at Wasukri pier in Bangkok.

Last month a trove of naked selfies said to be taken by Sineenat were leaked online, revealing the bitter infighting which still rages at court among the king’s harem of mistresses.

The leak of the “very explicit” images is thought to be connected to a bitter rivalry between the King’s mistress and his wife.

The revelation of the saucy snaps, some of which show Koi naked or semi-naked posing provocatively for the camera, comes after she rejoined the royal harem after being dramatically expelled and imprisoned last year.

 It’s an astonishing rise for the king’s royal consort who was thrown out of the palace and jailed for trying to block her rival Queen Suditha’s coronation in 2019.

But in October 2019, less than three months after making Sineenat his royal consort, the king issued a command rescinding the appointment and sending her to prison.

The official statement accused his mistress of being “dishonourable, lacking gratitude [and of] disobedience against the king and the queen”.