The Pattaya Mail Media
team joins the Kingdom of Thailand in humbly offering our best wishes to
HRH Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn on the occasion of His Royal
Birthday Celebration July 28. (Photo courtesy Bureau of the Royal
Household)
His
Royal Highness Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn was born on July 28,
1952, in the Ambara Villa of the Royal Dusit Palace in Bangkok. He is
the second of four children, and is the only son of Their Majesties King
Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great and Queen Sirikit.
The Crown Prince received his primary schooling at Udorn Hall of the
Dusit Palace and attended secondary school in Sussex and Summerset,
England. In August 1970, the Crown Prince attended the King’s School,
Paramatta, Sydney, Australia and in 1976, he received a Bachelor of Arts
Degree in Military Studies at the University of New South Wales. HRH the
Crown Prince also attended the Royal Thai Army Command and General Staff
College, graduating in 1978, and later received a Bachelor of Laws
Degree from Sukhothai Thammatirat University in Bangkok in 1987. In
1990, he successfully attended the Royal College of Defense Studies in
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej conferred his son with the title of
“Somdech Phra Borama Orasadhiraj Chao Fah Maha Vajiralongkorn Sayam
Makutrajakuman” on December 28, 1972, making him the Crown Prince and
Heir to the throne.
The Pattaya Mail Media
Group joins the Kingdom of Thailand in humbly offering our best wishes
to HRH Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn on the occasion of His 62nd
Royal Birthday Celebration, July 28. (Photo courtesy Bureau of the Royal
Household)
HRH Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn attended
numerous military training courses in Australia and the United States,
with observation tours in England, Belgium, Germany, France and the
Netherlands. A long list of military courses attended by the Crown
Prince includes helicopter and high performance aircraft flight
training, special warfare training, demolition training, parachute
training, and courses in small arms and other weapons used in modern
warfare.
Some assignments include Commanding Officer of the King’s Own Bodyguard
Regiment and Command; Commanding General of the Royalty Security
Command; and Instructor Pilot of the F-5 E/F. Intermittently, he engaged
in actions for counter-insurgency purposes in the North and Northeast
areas of Thailand as well as for protective purposes in areas around
Cambodian refugee camps at Khao Lant, Trat Province.
The Crown Prince has continued the Royal Family’s assistance programs to
underdeveloped areas around the country and visited depressed urban
areas around Bangkok distributing food and necessity items to people in
need. Another impressive undertaking was his participation in a
fertilizer preparation project in Suphanburi Province using natural
ingredients to enrich the land in support of the country’s great
agricultural pursuits. Farming is considered to be a highly significant
and noble profession in Thailand and the Royal Family takes an active
role in advancing the vital industry of agriculture.
HRH the Crown Prince opens
the ceremonial curtain, to reveal the RVYC signboard inaugurating the
new clubhouse in 2005. (Photo courtesy Bureau of the Royal Household)
HRH Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn and his Royal Consort
Her Royal Highness Princess Srirasm are the proud parents of HRH Prince
Dipangkorn Rasmijoti, born on April 29, 2005, at Siriraj Hospital in
Bangkok. It is the couple’s first child.
Also in 2005, HRH Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn officially opened the
splendid multi-million baht Royal Varuna Yacht Club, built on choice
seaside property at Kasetsin Beach, South Pattaya. Before an assembled
crowd of ministers, Royal Thai Navy officers, Palace and Pattaya City
officials, and a large number of Royal Varuna members, including a
number of past club commodores, HRH the Crown Prince activated the
ceremonial curtain, revealing the Varuna logo, thus officially opening
the club.
The Pattaya Mail Media Group humbly joins the Kingdom of Thailand in
offering our best wishes to HRH Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn on the
occasion of His Royal Birthday Celebration, July 28.
