Monique Vinh Thuy (born Monique Baudot, 30 April 1946 – 27 September 2021) was the widow of the last Emperor of
Vietnam,
Bảo Đại.
Biography
In 1969, Monique Baudot, a
French
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citizen who was then working in the press department of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo's embassy in France, met Emperor
Bảo Đại in
Paris. The former Vietnamese monarch abdicated in 1945, a year later went to live overseas, returned to Vietnam in 1949 as Head of
State of Vietnam
The State of Vietnam ( vi, Quốc gia Việt Nam; Chữ Nôm: 國家越南; french: État du Viêt-Nam) was a governmental entity in Southeast Asia that existed from 1949 until 1955, first as a member of the French Union and later as a country ...
, but was overthrown by his Prime Minister
Ngo Dinh Diem in 1955. He lived in exile in France thereafter.
In
Paris around 1971, the former emperor and Baudot started to live together. They married in 1982.
Since the death of her husband in 1997, Baudot has self-styled as ''Her Very Gracious Majesty Empress Thái Phương''.
According to French media, she died on September 27, 2021, at the age of 75. Her funeral was held on October 14, 2021 at the Chapel Sainte-Bernadette d'Auteuil in Paris.
References
External links
Emperor Bảo Đại and Princess Vĩnh Thụy visit Thiên-Lý Bửu-Tòa Cao Dai Temple''Dec. 2, 1982 at San Martin, California''
''English''
French
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Vietnamese princesses
French diplomats
1946 births
2021 deaths
Princesses by marriage