Princess Thai Phương is the widow of the last Emperor of Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

, Bảo Đại

Bảo Đài

Bảo Đài is a commune and village in Lục Nam District, Bac Giang Province, in northeastern Vietnam.-References:...

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Biography

In 1969, Monique Baudot, a French citizen who was then working in the press department of France's embassy in Zaire

Zaire

The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971 and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers".-Self-proclaimed Father of the Nation:In...

, met Emperor Bảo Đại in Paris, France. The former Vietnamese monarch had been sent into exile in 1945 by the French, returned to in 1949, and had been forced to abdicate in 1955.

In February 1972, in Paris, the former emperor and Baudot were married, and she was renamed Her Majesty Imperial Princess Vĩnh Thụy.

External links

• Emperor Bảo Đại and Princess Vĩnh Thụy visit Thiên-Lý Bửu-Tòa Cao Dai Temple Dec. 2, 1982 at San Martin, California
• Princess Vĩnh Thụy Interview English
• Emperor Bảo Đại and Princess Vĩnh Thụy meet supporters in France French