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Queen Consort Savang Vadhana of Siam (also known as Queen Sri Savarindira, 10 September, 1862 as Princess Savang Vadhana (????????????? ?????????????????????) – 17 December 1955) was a consort of King Chulalongkorn or Rama V
Chulalongkorn

Phrabat Somdet Phra Poramintramaha Chulalongkorn, Phra Chulachomklao Chaoyuhua was the fifth monarch of the Chakri dynasty. He was known to the Siamese of his time as Phra Buddhachao Luang ....
 (????????????????????????????????????? ????????? ?). Her full name and title
Thai royal and noble titles

Thailand royal and noble titles signify relationship to the King. The system is somewhat complicated and usually not well understood even by most Thai people....
 was Somdech Phra Sri Savarindira Boromma Raja Devi (or Somdej Phra Sri Savarindra Phra Boroma Raja Thevi) (???????????????????????????????) - thus she was not the Rajini (queen), but just was a higher consort.






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Queen Consort Savang Vadhana of Siam (also known as Queen Sri Savarindira, 10 September, 1862 as Princess Savang Vadhana (????????????? ?????????????????????) – 17 December 1955) was a consort of King Chulalongkorn or Rama V
Chulalongkorn

Phrabat Somdet Phra Poramintramaha Chulalongkorn, Phra Chulachomklao Chaoyuhua was the fifth monarch of the Chakri dynasty. He was known to the Siamese of his time as Phra Buddhachao Luang ....
 (????????????????????????????????????? ????????? ?). Her full name and title
Thai royal and noble titles

Thailand royal and noble titles signify relationship to the King. The system is somewhat complicated and usually not well understood even by most Thai people....
 was Somdech Phra Sri Savarindira Boromma Raja Devi (or Somdej Phra Sri Savarindra Phra Boroma Raja Thevi) (???????????????????????????????) - thus she was not the Rajini (queen), but just was a higher consort. Already long widowed, after her first grandson's accession in 1935 she became known as, Somdech Phra Phan Vasa Ayyika Chao (??????????????????????????), which means The Queen Grandmother because she was the grandmother of both King Ananda Mahidol
Ananda Mahidol

Ananda Mahidol or Rama VIII was the eighth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand....
 and the present king King Bhumibol Adulyadej or Rama IX.

Life

She was the 27th daughter of King Rama IV (King Mongkut or Rama IV
Mongkut

Phrabat Somdet Phra Pormen Maha Mongkut, Phra Chom Klao Chaoyouhua, or Rama IV was the fourth king of Siam 1851-1868) of the Chakri dynasty and one of the most revered monarchs of Siam....
) and Princess Consort Piam
Piam

Princess Consort Piam or Chao Chom Manda Piam . She was one of the royal wives of King Mongkut. When her grandson, Crown Prince Maha Vajiravudh acceded to the throne to be King Vajiravudh, he promoted the Princess Consort to be Somdej Phra Piyamawadi Sri Patcharin Mata ....
 and thus her husband's half-sister. From her marriage to Chulalongkorn there were the following issue:

  • Crown Prince
    Crown Prince

    A Crown Prince or Crown Princess is the heir apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy. The wife of a crown prince is also titled crown princess....
     Maha Vajirunhis
    Vajirunhis

    Crown Prince Vajirunhis was the first Crown Prince of the Chakri Dynasty. He was the first son of King Chulalongkorn and Queen Savang Vadhana....
     (b. 27 June 1878 – 4 January 1895);
  • Prince Isariyalongkorn (4 September 1879 – 25 September 1879);
  • Princess Vichitra Chiraprabha (21 April 1881 – 15 August 1881);
  • Prince Sommatiwongse Varodaya, Prince of Nakhon Si Thammarat
    Nakhon Si Thammarat

    Nakhon Si Thammarat is a town in southern Thailand, capital of the Nakhon Si Thammarat Province and the Amphoe Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat. It is about 610 km south of Bangkok, on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula....
     (9 June 1882 – 17 June 1899);
  • Princess Valaya Alongkorn
    Valaya Alongkorn

    |-Princess Valaya Alongkorn, the Princess of Phetchaburi Rajsirindhorn , she was a child of King Chulalongkorn and Queen Savang Vadhana, and the older sister of Prince Mahidol Adulyadej....
    , Princess of Phetchaburi
    Phetchaburi

    Phetchaburi, also known as Phetburi, is a town in central Thailand, capital of the Phetchaburi Province. In Thai, Phetchaburi means city of diamonds ....
     (16 April 1884 – 15 February 1939);
  • Princess Sirabhorn Sobhon (19 July 1888) – 28 May 1898);
  • Prince Mahidol Adulyadej
    Mahidol Adulyadej

    HRH Prince Mahidol Adulyadej of Songkla was the father of King Ananda Mahidol and King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. He was also regarded as the father of modern medicine and public health of Thailand....
    , Prince of Songkhla
    Songkhla

    Songkhla is a city in the Songkhla Province of southern Thailand, near the border with Malaysia. As of 2006 it had a population of 75,048. The city is a part of Greater Hatyai-Songkhla Metropolitan Area....
     (1 January 1892 – 24 September 1929).


When King Prajadhipok (or Rama VII)
Prajadhipok

Prajadhipok was the seventh king of the Chakri dynasty. He was the last absolute monarch and the first constitutional monarch of Siam.Prajadhipok's reign was the shortest in the history of the Chakri Dynasty....
 abdicated in 1935, the son of Queen Savang Vadhana's youngest son, Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkhla, acceded to the throne as King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII)
Ananda Mahidol

Ananda Mahidol or Rama VIII was the eighth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand....
. She received the title of Queen Grandmother, having been renamed Sri Savarindira by King Prajadhipok while she was Queen Aunt.

Queen Sri Savarindira was also the grandmother of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX)
Bhumibol Adulyadej

Bhumibol Adulyadej , is the current Monarchy of Thailand. Publicly acclaimed "the Great" , he is also known as Rama . Having reigned since 9 June 1946, he is the world's List of longest reigning current monarchs current head of state and the List of longest reigning monarchs of all time monarch in History of Thailand....
. Although her son, Crown Prince Maha Vajirunhis did not survive to become king she lived to see two of her grandsons become king.

Death

She died on 17 December, 1955, at the age of 93. Her ashes are interred in the Royal Cemetery at Wat Ratchabophit, Bangkok. A residence of the queen can be seen at the Bang Pa-In Royal Palace
Bang Pa-In Royal Palace

Bang Pa-In Royal Palace , also known as the Summer Palace, is a palace complex formerly used by the Chakri Dynasty as a summer dwelling....
. She resided in latter years at Sa Pathum Palace, where a museum dedicated to her is being constructed at the Tamnak Yai Mansion.

Queen Savang Vadhana Foundation was founded on 27 October 2005 under the aegis of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn

Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is the second daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and is currently third in line to the Thailand throne. She is a member of the Thai Royal Family....
, her great granddaughter.

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