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The unusually candid pictures of King Maha
Vajiralongkorn's consort, 34-year-old Major-General Sineenat
Wongvajirapakdi, were released along with her official
biography.
A palace official said the website was being fixed because of
the volume of traffic. The palace has a policy of not commenting
to media.
The king named Sineenat, a former nurse and his bodyguard, as
Royal Noble Consort on his birthday last month. It was the first
such appointment in almost a century, long before the end of
absolute monarchy in 1932.
Some of the pictures are in the usual royal tradition, with
Sineenat wearing Thai dress and sitting at the king's feet.
But she is also pictured in the cockpit of a fighter jet and
wearing a gray camouflage pattern crop-top at the controls of a
light aircraft. Some pictures show Sineenat and the king holding
hands while one shows them both in green combat fatigues with
the royal pet dog.
Sineenat's appointment as consort came after the king married a
former flight attendant and deputy head of his personal guard
force, Suthida Tidjai, 41, and made her queen just days before
his coronation in May.
(Editing by Robert Birsel)
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