‘Thai Zhen Huan’? Why Chinese media named Thailand’s reinstated royal consort Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi

 

Andrew MacGregor Marshall@zenjournalist

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There’s even online gossip and memes in China about King Vajiralongkorn’s reinstated consort Sineenat “Koi” Wongvajirapakdi

 

 

Why China named the Thai royal consort after TV’s Empresses in the Palace

The real life ‘Thai Zhen Huan’? Chinese netizens have been quick to point out the similarities between Thailand’s reinstated royal consort Sineenat and the hit TV show’s fictional concubine

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‘Thai Zhen Huan’? Why Chinese media named Thailand’s reinstated royal consort Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi after the fictional concubine from hit TV show Empresses in the Palace

Former nurse and pilot Sineenat was removed from the royal palace because of her ‘disloyalty’ in challenging Queen Suthida, King Vajiralongkorn’s 4th wife – but a year later she’s back, attracting countless memes and comparisons to the fictional concubine who worked her way into the heart of Imperial China’s Forbidden City