Queen Somanass Waddhanawathy
[Wichitwathakan, Wibun. ''Satri sayam nai adit'' eminine Siamese in the past Bangkok : Sangsanbooks, 1999, p. 172 ][Cristo Raul. ]
Mongkut
''. retrieved 25 August 2013 ( th, โสมนัสวัฒนาวดี; ; ; 1834–1852) was the first consort of
Mongkut, the King of
Siam
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...
, and the queen consort though for only nine months.
Princess Somanass was a daughter of Prince Lakkhananukhun (son of
Nangklao
Nangklao ( th, พระบาทสมเด็จพระนั่งเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว, ; 31 March 1788 – 2 April 1851), birth name Thap ( th, ทับ), also styled Rama III, was the third king of Siam ...
) and Ngiu Suvarnadat. Since her father was ''Phra Ong Chao'' (Lakkhananukhun was Phra Ong Chao or Second rank Prince because he was a son of The King and royal concubine), Somanass was destined to be ''Mom Chao'' (third rank princess). However, King
Nangklao
Nangklao ( th, พระบาทสมเด็จพระนั่งเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว, ; 31 March 1788 – 2 April 1851), birth name Thap ( th, ทับ), also styled Rama III, was the third king of Siam ...
(Rama III) who's her grandfather specially granted her the title of ''Phra Ong Chao'' (second rank princess)
In 1851, upon his
coronation
A coronation is the act of placement or bestowal of a crown upon a monarch's head. The term also generally refers not only to the physical crowning but to the whole ceremony wherein the act of crowning occurs, along with the presentation of ot ...
, Mongkut married Princess Somanass, making her the queen. In 1852, she gave birth to a prince: Somdet Chaofa Somanass, but the prince died shortly after birth. Queen Somanass herself died two months after.
Ancestors
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1834 births
1852 deaths
19th-century Thai women
19th-century Chakri dynasty
People from Bangkok
Thai female Phra Ong Chao
Thai female Mom Chao
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